[noppid]

Good job coding, but couldn't this bring a hosting account down quickly?

I think if someone hosted an 800KB file and then linked to it on a busy forum in their signature, your bandwitch would be gone in no time.

10GB/800KB=12500 Downloads or displays to use 10GB of bandwidth.
12500/50=250 Downloads or displays each for 50 users to use up 10GB bandwidth.

This is the extreme, but as you can see it adds up fast. This will make the hosts that offer unlimited BW for $8.00 cringe I bet!

On the other hand, limiting pics to 64K...
10GB/64KB=156250 Downloads or displays to use 10GB of bandwidth.
That is alot more views per 10GB, but certainly possible to use up.

Ok, I'll put the calculator away now.

Have you seen the usage go up on your site with remote hits to the database to retrive the images? I'm wondering if this would be a great front end for uploading to a folder via php and just using a url for the link eliminating the DB calls for the vB backend and image retrival. You'd have all the security for uploading and managing images and none of the DB overhead on displays or storage.

Just some thoughts to consider.

Cheers!