On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a large, busy, database application that relates to millions of > photos, which we also need to store and display.
Have you read Cal Henderson's book about how Flickr works? It's a bit extreme, but interesting. A smaller version of the "many photos" problem is LiveJournal, who use their custom file storage API (MogileFS) and serve the files with their own web server (perlbal). Definitely another extreme solution that should probably be considered a last resort after trying to make easier stuff work, but it sounds like the easier stuff is not working for you. - Perrin
