Direct Link to Attachments

[tfw2005]

Thanks guys, I figured what you said was true but just checking.

The main thing that kills us regarding attachments is that we are using a portal system on the main page, and when hot or new images are released, everyone loads that page and clicks the thumbnail, even if we have the full gallery in a non DB/VB system.

Once we stopped using thumbs on main page via the attachment system, the crashes became less frequent immediately.

I rigged a form upload with auto thumb creation in the newthread bit which only admins/staff can see, and it outputs the thumb-with-link-to-full code, so they can copy paste it into thread. 1 extra step than regular attach file process via VB. Looks same to users, better for server.

If we are going to get slammed with image requests, Id rather not have to access the DB period. That is....

Am I correct in thinking that when attachment.php is called, it has to access the physical file location in the DB and then load the image/file into the browser?