[svlug] Any other photo geeks?

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:30:51PM -0800:

> If you need significant bandwidth, you need it.  However, it doesn't
> follow that you need to turn over your files to some odd little hosting
> company, and enter into a contractual business relationship where you
> give them permission to data-mine you and spam you to death.

If you use a hosted service, you also give up valuable
Google Juice that you could be sending to a domain you
control.  Why pour your creative work into a fraction
of some service's PageRank of 8 or 9 when you could,
like many long-time SVLUG members, get yourself a 5,
6, or 7?

If you need the capacity to serve a lot of static
files, one alternative is coralcdn.org -- you keep the
master copies of your large files, such as photos
or audio, and use the content delivery network
for automatic mirroring.  See the "transparent
redirection" example here:
  http://wiki.coralcdn.org/wiki.php?n=Main.Examples

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Don Marti                    
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