I work with a company called ClassCreator that has a hosted application for building high school reunion sites, and one of the more significant drains on CPU and CF threads is file uploads and image resizing.
Currently, some file uploads go directly to our main server (ie, if the site administrator is using the file upload component in FCKeditor to add pictures to a page). These images are uploaded, resized, and stored on our primary web server. End users also have the ability to upload photo galleries, and we send the uploads to a separate images server... which resizes the image then copies it up to Amazon S3 storage and that's where we distribute them from. I'm thinking that it might be possible to move BOTH of these processes to the amazon cloud... so the file upload goes directly to the cloud, where maybe we use Railo to handle receipt of the image upload, resize it as required, and store it on S3... Our current image resizer is CFX_IMAGECR3 because CFIMAGE in CF8 isn't as effective, and the java image resizing tools (like imageCFC) are even less effective. I don't know JACK about cloud computing, so I'm not even sure if it's possible to run something like CFX_ImageCR3 on the cloud. Thanks. Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327434 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
