CGTalk Server Rollback

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not all hosts allow file linking

Originally posted by Aaron Moore
not all hosts allow file linking

doteasy.com does…and I have had no problems with them…

I think everyone has gotten really bumbed because of all this. Our greatest thread gone, no more attatchments… Could put a dark cloud over CGtalk… I thought the server problems were fixed with the new server. Everything seemed to be running well, and fast. Then this…

Originally posted by ZaonDude
[B]The topic of attachments will soon be moot.

Version 3.0 of vbulletin (in late beta testing now) will solve this issue entirely:

Attachments will actually be uploaded FTP to a folder and NOT encoded in the database.

That way, the database will consist only of text and will be a considerably smaller file size to backup regularly and more likely to maintain integrity.

Individual attachments (sitting as individual files in an FTP directory) can be backed up less frequently this way. [/B]

Sounds promising.
Lets hope for a final release soon.

Originally posted by mdme_sadie
[B]You can still see images directly in a post that have been loaded onto another site and are included using (img) tags.

In fact it’s better this way for me, i can simply cahnge the image as and when i want on my own site which is nice and fast. I can put up images much larger or at much higher quality than I would be able to using attachments on CGTalk… and my server will give ma a nice set of stats on the images too which is a nice bonus.

here’s one now… (held on my webspace)

http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/samples/jpg/largerrobot.jpg

and another cool thing is you can link in more than one image per pos this way, though i wont do that here as it’s a pain for people viewing the page, but it’s good when you’re doing WIP’s. [/B]

not everyone has a webspace to host their images on, or a large amount of space, i only get 10mb from my provider and thats DEFINATLY not enough…

Gah! Why does this always happen a day after I write a frikkin essay in reply to a tech question and before the person I was replying to had a chance to read it :hmm:

i use netfirms.com for hosting my images…

its for free and you get 25 mb of web space, 1gig of transfer a month as well as ftp upload to your site which is a big plus for me.

only downside i see is the max of 50mb transfer for one day, which shouldnt happen too often though.

I use www.lycos.co.uk
50MB web-space, unlimitted transfer etc., FTP… and I can link all the stuff to my own website aswell as to cgtalk.com
And it’s all directly visible on the board.
(Thanks for the tip last summer Joril )

if you people notice the most populated forum is the gallery.

how about making a small thumbnail for every image attachment? and an extra click for the full size?

not much of a techy guy ; not sure if this would cut the bandwidth traffic, but with this the crappy ones wouldn’t be downloaded

I use my own hosting company server that houses my website.

Cybernautic Design (and hosting)

I like Bored Alien’s suggestion best. If you can link to your pics easily, do that. If not, then keep on posting them directly in the forum. Seems the most diplomatic way to me, and most people on this forum are responsible enough to do what’s best, I reckon.

feck, lost me sig too…:rolleyes:

shit happens :thumbsdow

yeah, i lost over a hundred quality posts,:thumbsdow

Hey guys I posted my entry for the traditional challenge before
going on a cruise. That means that I finished and posted the piece before the dateline.

Can I report is again?

By the way I am posting this somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic so this is costing me an arm and a leg.

Any help here?

-Roberto

Lost posts, the best thread ever gone, new restrictions. This forum has plumeted in my eyes. There’s just no two ways about it.

don’t give up on it guys! i still think this is the best cg forum in terms of the mix of poeple on it… everyone form newbies through to hollywood sfx, games designers, illustrators, etc… we have kinda hammered the server so it’s only to be expected that it’s a victim of it’s own success… i just hope that people don’t desert because of this, as that would be a real shame. (rememebr to click the banners!)

Firstly I just wanted to mention to Aaron Moore that the image link he posted shows up as garbled text in Mozilla (and I assume other ‘flavours’ of Netscape)

Originally posted by Aaron Moore
Here is an example to a image: http://www.vi2.com/uploader.php?n=39897&f=.jpg

It’s a good idea, no doubt… but after doing a little web design and working to conform to cross-compatibility, I get annoyed when people use a technology that doesn’t work outside of IE :thumbsdow

Also, regarding jeroentje’s comment… He didn’t mean getting rid of inline attachment altogether, (yeas, that would be rather ludicrous) but just no longer hosting them on cgtalk’s servers (which they do out of the kindness of their heart.)

I don’t know what it’s like in other countries, but in Australia most ISP’s give you free webspace (usually 5 or 10 meg) with your account. I have two accounts with two different ISP’s that both give me 10mb :xtreme: so if you’re not sure, contact you’re ISP’s helpdesk and they should be able to point you in the right direction.

Regarless, with this news of vBulletin 3.0 storing images separte to the DB, there really should be no more issues once it’s implemented.

Edit: Grammar.

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