I know to you farmers everyday of the week is the same but to those office boys it is the weekend...
My prediction along about 9am EDT Monday Bruce drops by and says he’ll get Steve right on it. Along about Tuesday Steve will tell Bruce how many Thousands of dollars a larger server costs.
Just a quick reminder to folks that Bruce pays for us to have this site. Anything we can do to support his other business should be done. I sure wish cross border shopping was easier but both out gubberments are making it tougher to get along.
I keep looking at deal of the day items every time I log in (daily), some great deals even if they are mostly for those "other brands that need constant fixing".
I looked once and it said 70$ shipping to Europe - just can't swallow that no matter how good a deal is.
I thought twice about purchasing that 36" chainsaw mill HLSupply had on sale the other day though.
Members have to realize that those huge file size pictures most tend to upload
take up excessive storage capacity and server throughput!
I know that most members just take a picture on their gadget at highest resolution/quality and upload it directly to the forum - but that hurts the forum in the long run.
I might get bashed for writing this, but on another forum I am on (not chainsaw/OPE related) the Administrators faced this same issue.
They switched to faster servers twice, but eventually implemented an automatic picture resize to the forum software.
I personally didn't like it at first, but I did realize why they went that route - although I still think that the automatic forum picture resize is set too low.
Fact is that some devices/gadgets behave wasteful in regards of storage when creating pictures.
I have a Panasonic digital camera that features 10MegaPixel picture resolution, I keep it set on 7 MegaPixel and each picture has a file size of 5 to 7 megabyte.
I realized that when I push those pictures through "Windows Resize Picture" and set the output resolution to be the same as the input resolution the file size drops to about 1-1.5 megabyte without noticeably hurting picture quality.
The "Windows Resize Picture" supports batch mode processing.
I have recompiled all pictures from that Panasonic camera and saved up several gigabytes on storage space.
My point is, many devices shoot and save pictures (and videos) fairly RAW - that way the manufacturers save on the devices processing resource requirements, can claim "fast shooting" and sell a bunch of "Cloud storage for Your pictures and videos".
Apologies for the derail.
Cheers
