Dedicated Image/Attachment Server
 

Has anyone ever written up instructions how to offload avatars/attachments, et. al. to a dedicated file server?

Hi,

I am trying to do the same. Have you found any information about it?

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

You will probably get more responses on vB.com.

vb.com referred back to here :)

moving attachments should be easy....simply create http://attach.mydomain.com and redirect your Attachments Storage Type to a different directory...mine currently would be home/forum/attachments and would redirect to home/attach/attachments instead

static images can be done similar, creating http://img.mydomain.com and hard-url all the image paths in Style Manager > All Style Options to http://img.mydomain.com/images/buttons

easy enuf on both to then move those sub-domains to a separate server.

my Attachment folder is presently at 15GB and I'm server shopping to relocate those. Believe a 1U case with a pair of 400GB 10k SAS drives in Raid 1, a pair of dual-core processors and 4GB of memory should be sufficient for a while :)

Will likely also work to off-load my Gallery images as well, further freeing up space on my current web server.

Server 1 which is main server

Server 2 for attachments, if I understand this correctly this what you say will work

Move all attachments to server sub domain call it say attach.domain.com

Then on main server create a sub domain call it filestore.domaion.com with filestore being username
Then for attachments in vb main server path place /home/filestore/ then go to filestore folder and create a redirect back to attach.domain.com

Is this what you are saying will work?

Joey

hi ,guys

there is another idea for this

using vBSEO to rewrite the attachement URL and let the CDN do the rest of things. (such as reverse proxy )

http://www.vbseo.com/f23/rewrite-rul...ent-cdn-34701/

Not really, because you also need to edit vb's core files to tell the system not to store attachments on the same server as the forum runs but setup an ftp or some kind of protocol for the files to be stored on the new server as well.

If anyone is up with this now, please let me know, I'm trying out CDN right now and would love to be able to serve attachments and album pics like we can other things. It really is working, I tried it out, and my server is in dallas, but I live near NY, and my page load time went from 15 seconds to 5 seconds on average!

I guess we might just have to wait for their Vbul plugin to come out.

See this thread .....

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=220237