out of disk space - want to host pictures on picasa or flickr

ls129

Joined: 2009-07-17
Posts: 5

Posted: Fri, 2009-07-17 11:46

I've been using gallery for several years and have run out of disk space with my web hosting site.
to increase disk space they want a ridiculous amount of money.
to migrate the whole thing to another host is too much effort (due to other legacy stuff running on the same site).

I'm looking for a way to keep my gallery site as it is but to have the pictures streamed from a remote source such as flickr or picasa or another cheap web hosting deal such as godaddy.

i've been searching the gallery forums for a mod that would allow the image and video files to be sourced NOT from the local disk but from a REMOTE ftp or http source but haven't found anything. I've even considered a linux kernel module that will mount a remote FTP site as a local disk but that seems to require the source code of my current kernel which i dont have @#$

Can you please suggest a solution?

my current site is based on gallery2 but i dont mind migrating to gallery3 if that will solve the problem

thanks

(sorry for cross posting this on gallery3 forum)

nivekiam

Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 16503

Posted: Fri, 2009-07-17 17:54

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I'm looking for a way to keep my gallery site as it is but to have the pictures streamed from a remote source such as flickr or picasa or another cheap web hosting deal such as godaddy.

Those options? Not possible.

I've seen some people using Amazon's S3 service.

http://gallery.menalto.com/node/77816
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/46771
http://www.google.com/search?q=gallery+s3+amazon

While G3 code base might take up less space and there will probably be less files needed to be cached, if the majority of your site is photos, it's probably not going to save you any time and you'd still end up with a disk space issue as you'd have to install G3 on the same server and have duplicates of your images for a time.

Just saw this:

Quote:

(sorry for cross posting this on gallery3 forum)

and this: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/89127

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ls129 Joined: 2009-07-17 Posts: 5	Posted: Fri, 2009-07-17 11:46
	I've been using gallery for several years and have run out of disk space with my web hosting site. to increase disk space they want a ridiculous amount of money. to migrate the whole thing to another host is too much effort (due to other legacy stuff running on the same site). I'm looking for a way to keep my gallery site as it is but to have the pictures streamed from a remote source such as flickr or picasa or another cheap web hosting deal such as godaddy. i've been searching the gallery forums for a mod that would allow the image and video files to be sourced NOT from the local disk but from a REMOTE ftp or http source but haven't found anything. I've even considered a linux kernel module that will mount a remote FTP site as a local disk but that seems to require the source code of my current kernel which i dont have @#$ Can you please suggest a solution? my current site is based on gallery2 but i dont mind migrating to gallery3 if that will solve the problem thanks (sorry for cross posting this on gallery3 forum)
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nivekiam Joined: 2002-12-10 Posts: 16503	Posted: Fri, 2009-07-17 17:54
	Quote: I'm looking for a way to keep my gallery site as it is but to have the pictures streamed from a remote source such as flickr or picasa or another cheap web hosting deal such as godaddy. Those options? Not possible. I've seen some people using Amazon's S3 service. http://gallery.menalto.com/node/77816 http://gallery.menalto.com/node/46771 http://www.google.com/search?q=gallery+s3+amazon While G3 code base might take up less space and there will probably be less files needed to be cached, if the majority of your site is photos, it's probably not going to save you any time and you'd still end up with a disk space issue as you'd have to install G3 on the same server and have duplicates of your images for a time. Just saw this: Quote: (sorry for cross posting this on gallery3 forum) and this: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/89127 Locking thread ____________________________________________ Like Gallery? Like the support? Donate now!!! See G2 live here

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