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First question would be about how much can I trust this. ie.: would you open source it and provide it as a paying service at the same time (like, say, wordpress

First question would be about how much can I trust this. ie.: would you open source it and provide it as a paying service at the same time (like, say, wordpress). That's the surest way for me to trust any type of infrastructure, ie. if you guys dissapoint or dissapear with the hosted service, I can run it myself. Second: how helpful is something like this really? Can you give some example use cases?

roachsocal 16y ago
Right now we're hosting it because it makes setup / integration time very quick. We're considering going open source for those who want to setup a box to do this yourself. Here's an example of how we use it: We push original high resolution versions of photos/graphics to S3. Then to make a page with smaller, cropped thumbnails, it's as easy as calling for the image through Cloudfront with a special cdnimag.es url. (example integation: http://www.seewhatiwore.com/browse http://www.seewhatiwore.com/browse) You'll notice with a site like Flickr, they generate five fixed sizes and they are locked into those sizes across their site. (example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/183689226/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/183689226/sizes/l/...) With cdnimag.es you can generate variations of the original image (sizes, crops, grayscale, reflection) on the fly without doing anything to the original. All this while still enjoying the caching and performance benefits of a CDN like Cloudfront.
- bitsm 16y ago
  Would this service support direct uploads to S3?
  - traviskuhl 16y ago
    Yes. Currently our API supports pushing images to your S3 account (http://cdnimag.es/#anc_20 http://cdnimag.es/#anc_20). You can also use our clients for quicker integration (https://github.com/traviskuhl/cdnimages-clients/ https://github.com/traviskuhl/cdnimages-clients/. currently only PHP, but we have a Perl & Ruby client coming soon)

roachsocal 16y ago

Right now we're hosting it because it makes setup / integration time very quick. We're considering going open source for those who want to setup a box to do this yourself. Here's an example of how we use it: We push original high resolution versions of photos/graphics to S3. Then to make a page with smaller, cropped thumbnails, it's as easy as calling for the image through Cloudfront with a special cdnimag.es url. (example integation: http://www.seewhatiwore.com/browse http://www.seewhatiwore.com/browse) You'll notice with a site like Flickr, they generate five fixed sizes and they are locked into those sizes across their site. (example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/183689226/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/183689226/sizes/l/...) With cdnimag.es you can generate variations of the original image (sizes, crops, grayscale, reflection) on the fly without doing anything to the original. All this while still enjoying the caching and performance benefits of a CDN like Cloudfront.

bitsm 16y ago
Would this service support direct uploads to S3?
- traviskuhl 16y ago
  Yes. Currently our API supports pushing images to your S3 account (http://cdnimag.es/#anc_20 http://cdnimag.es/#anc_20). You can also use our clients for quicker integration (https://github.com/traviskuhl/cdnimages-clients/ https://github.com/traviskuhl/cdnimages-clients/. currently only PHP, but we have a Perl & Ruby client coming soon)