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Check out the newly released WP-Offload plugin. It provides seamless integration through the WordPress plugin architecture.Instant Skype Support
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steadyoffload
Easy and seamless integration
All you need is a single HTML line to refer to a little piece of external javascript code into your page. Then you make use of the extremely handy tag attributes we provide.Try it for free!
Every new subscriber obtains 5 GB of free bandwidth to evaluate the service!Infinite scalability
The data-parallel infrastructure behind SteadyOffload is designed to handle extreme loads without sacrificing performance.The Thumbnail Problem
Probably you've already come across this tiresome problem and you're accepting it without an idea of its solution. The problem involves having to create, upload, maintain, store and synchronize a number of thumbnails for each large image you have on your website.Suppose you own an online shop and you need 3 different-sized thumbnails for each product image. Intuition suggests either the manual creation of each of these thumbnails through an image editor or automated creation through a server-side script. Sticking to that widely adopted approach, what you end up with is certainly a lot of files - 1 for the original image and 3 more for the thumbnails. As you may have experienced, it's a real headache to create, update, maintain and synchronize each of these thumbnails with the original image. Moreover, storing so much files wastes a lot of disk space and aggravates the filesystem performance.
The SteadyOffload service provides you with the unique opportunity to just keep only the original large image file, having an unlimited number of thumbnails in any size without having to bother at all. The only thing you have to do is specify the thumbnail dimensions through the custom xmanip attribute of the img tag (hover to enlarge):
By using the srcx attribute rather than src, you indicate that this image has to be offloaded (srcx stands behind "eXternal SouRCe"). However, the value of srcx remains unchanged - it still points to the large image that is located on your server. In fact, you treat the thumbnail as the same file with some added manipulations.
The xmanip attribute offers a lot more image manipulations which in fact remove the need of doing CPU-intensive image processing on your server. Instead, all the CPU-intensive image processing tasks take place on our servers.
By offloading image requests entirely and not doing any image manipulation on your server, the performance gain is highly significant. As a result, you utilize the capacity of your server for faster and more responsive serving of pages and dynamic content, something that really matters to your visitors.