Attachments on another server

[bL@De]

Hi there Guys,
I have recently moved to another host and the way I'm heading we will be needing a dedicated box sometime soon which I want to try and extend out a bit if need be.

My thinking is remain on the same plan but offload all images ie attachments, avatars, basically anything graphic related to another server with another host so I can simply use that provider for cheap storage.

So my understanding is the site will load with one host but thumbnails and attachments will come from the other provider.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, I have searched around but unable to find anything in concrete as yet.

Thanks

Cheers
Darren

[bL@De]

Nobody knows? Just a quick bump anyway.

[Eikinskjaldi]

If the attachments are on disk you will need to modify the appropriate code so that instead of just looking in the local directory it performs an ftp or scp to the remote machine for the image.

If the attacments are in a db then you can set up a new mysql handler than connects to the remote machine and uses that attachment table instead of the local one.

In either case, its a really bad idea. Massive amounts of extra overhead for minimal gain (saving a gig or so of local disk space).