>> in 1 year, there going to be more than 1000 photo uploaded or more. That isn?t really much. A directory can held much more than a few thousand files. They use more than one Server because 1 Server can't handle the load. The don?t do that because of limited File system. But the file system may get slower if you have thousands of files in one dir. So maybe make dirs like c/a/cartoon.jpg to get not too much files in one dir. If you need several Servers for this depends on how many visitors you have. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: paragasu [mailto:paragasu@xxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 09:47 An: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: scalable web gallery i am planning to create a web photo gallery. i know there is a lot available out there, but i really want to create my own. the problem is not about creating the photo gallery. i want it to be scalable. the plan is saving the image metadata in the database and keep the original files in a folder. while it work perfectly, i afraid how many files 1 directory can keep. in 1 year, there going to be more than 1000 photo uploaded or more. sure it bring problem to maintain thus files. when i see big2 website out there like friendster, photobucket. the url for the image change like pic-1.domain.com/images/filename.jpg pic-2.domain.com/images/filename.jpg etc. they seems to put the image in different subdomain. Just wan't to ask anyone who did create a big-big web gallery like this. How did you do it? thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
