[mezzanine-users] Products admin page times out accessing files from S3 on Heroku

So, I am up to 63 products on my cartridge site. I am serving images from S3 using django-storages. The backend is set to use DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage' The problem is that when I access the products menu in the admin site, I get a Heroku timeout. If I

Re: [mezzanine-users] Products admin page times out accessing files from S3 on Heroku

Short answer is that the thumbnailing built into Mezzanine really isn't very compatible with a remote storages backend like S3. I'd suggest using something else for thumbnailing, while disabling Mezzanine's - quickest way to do that would be to add your own thumbnail template tag that overrides