I'll add a little more in response later today as I only have a few seconds at this very moment, but I wanted to mention something right now at least, regarding this:

I agree, the service wouldn't be for everyone - a lot of people like self hosting (I myself am one of those people) - and perhaps there would be a self-hosted version I'd make available, but to provide the level of service I want to with such a mod/plugin/whatever you want to call it, being able to fully administrate the infrastructure is something that I see, personally, as being important to me as the developer.

In regards to it being ran on HTTPS, I entirely agree. In fact, it's something I strongly believe in so much that I wouldn't even give the option to disable SSL for the service. Some could argue that having images behind SSL could cause extra round trip time due to SSL negotiation, but these images being served from a CDN would clear that up for most forum operators - and in a lot of situations, even being behind SSL but served with a CDN images would still load faster due to not a lot of places using CDNs for forum images/attachments.

That, along with all of the other newer technologies that increase loading time (HTTP/2 etc), would all be enabled, and again, such extreme performance optimizations aren't as common on forums as we'd all prefer. I am extremely... paranoid, or obsessive... when it comes to optimization when it comes to delivery of web objects.

SSL is becoming a very important aspect to the web these days, and I'd sweeten the pot for those who would use this service if I do end up creating it (I'm looking to create a few services for forum owners actually, this one included)... by allowing the site owner to choose the subdomain they wish to have their images served from, and thus creating, utilizing and issuing (yes, giving you the actual cert to utilize on your site however you want) a wildcard SSL certificate (signed by GlobalSign's AlphaSSL CA) for your domain for free.

Will add a little bit more later when I get back.

Paying one time for a functional commercial product that would enable self hosting would be something we'd be interested in .. :up:

Thanks .. :)

Regards,
Doug

Ok, well this thread is for this mod..

Can anyone tell me why Tapatalk images do not import. I believe they used to but I am not sure. It could have to do with their https:// url change or ours but I really want those images on our server..

Why would the cron job for this task suddenly stop logging events?

If PHP silently crashes, for example.

Maybe ... you have no CURL? fopen() is somewhat limited with https.

I'm not sure what you mean by "silently crashes". I haven't seen anything to suggest anything crashed in server alerts. But assuming this might happen, what is the resolution? Server reboot?

If PHP crashes silently then there is no notification anywhere and the causes are unknown. We have had silent crashes with huge images (such as 60.000x80.000 pixel). The solution is to mark that post as "scanned ok" and eventually exclude the specific image in the options, if it appears in more than one post.

How do you mark it as "scanned ok"? How do you even know which image to do that for if there's no notification and if the add-on is no longer logging its activity?

I just checked and this does not appear to be working at all any more.. no changes to the settings or plug in but updated Vbulletin, changed php version..things like that. Vbulletin 4.2.4 beta 1..also changed site to https://

Cron tasks says done but nothing happens..