on 2012-11-25 17:09 Igor Roshchin wrote
3. Advanced webhosting/co-location VM/server/... ..with a Content Management software that essentially duplicates the photo-hosting websites. I don't know if such software exists (at the level comparable to that of Flickr, not just primitive homegrown javascript/php/... scripts). If you find such software, please let me know.
Drupal can do it … i have been hashing out the design of a Drupal photo site, but will only execute when i have the time for a sustained effort; i've spent enough time with Drupal professionally to be realistic about how much work it is, however, and how intimidating Drupal can be
you'll find Drupal has too many options; the key is to use the community to zero in on best practices and focus on the general architecture, rather than the exact features you want; while i can write code if i need to, i expect i won't need to write any PHP, and use only a small amount of custom JavaScript (on top of Jquery and plug-ins); it will still take a significant amount of CSS (which i'm weak at)
if your traffic is low, and you set up caching smartly, you can host something like this on better brands of cheap shared hosting (i use Dreamhost, which seems more developer-friendly than GoDaddy); shared hosting won't be very responsive for development, so learn how to do that in a local environment (e.g. MAMP/WAMP)
i wouldn't be emulating Flickr, but i'd say it's possible to get that "richness" of interface by carefully building on the work of others, and incrementally investing a lot of time
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