PHP thumbnail creation.

High server load?

[HughMungus]

Does PHP's thumbnail creation ability cause high server load? I'm only doing about 10 thumbnails per page from images that aren't very large but my host is telling me that something in my PHP scripts is causing excessive server load.

Further to the above question, can a PHP script be written that creates a thumbnail then saves it as a file instead of as a temporary image?

[jatar_k]

yes it can definitely cause a lot of load, especially if you have traffic.

Why not just create the thumbs and save them permanently?

[Timotheos]

Have you seen the Bag-o-tricks msg 29 and 30 [webmasterworld.com]?

[HughMungus]

Why not just create the thumbs and save them permanently?

That was why I wanted to use it, though -- because I wouldn't have to create thumbnails at all.

Anyway, I'm going too look into a setup that does that creates a thumbnail on the first instance then stores it for future instances.

[HughMungus]

Thanks Tim. That might be what I need.