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Hi All,

I host my website on a dedicated host. All images are also on the same server. Time has come to move images to storage/file server. I'm aware of Google and AWS solution which I don't want to use them due to cost. I want to host it on my other dedicated server which I'll use solely as file server for images.

I need some pointers on how to do it.

Are there any free open source solution available?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Same problem here ...

I wanted a static site to be generated from a directory with a whole lot of photos... [ just files .. no back end web server / php or database ]

I ended up writing a script to wrangle the image files, and piGallery2 to show them. The script finds the images, makes thumbs, renames/resizes/converts and theres a single html with javascript that reads the list, and uses piGallery2 to show the photos.

ps. I wanted to use avif file formats, as the files are smaller than jpg files, by a lot.

Sample here, with a few pics from pexels : http://quato.xyz/pix/pexels_italy/

[ it is a static site, so no server code .. although the web front end does use javascript .. I just copied the bundle of files under my current web server directory ]