I know there is a way to config apache for serve static/* but I did not find how to do it in webfaction yet.
But certainly putting images under static is much faster than download function. Em 07/03/2011, às 16:36, pbreit <[email protected]> escreveu: > I saw over on web2py-developers that Bruno raised a question about image > serving performance through the "download" function. I was curious about this > myself as my app will be serving an excessive amount of imagery. I was > surprised that images weren't just served statically. What exactly would I be > giving up by not using the download function? One thing I am guessing is > authentication which I don't really need. > > I suspect I will probably do what Bruno suggested and switch to statically > served images. I think at some point I will move images over to Amazon S3 or > RackSpace Files anyhow so this will be a good first step.
