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I know of a very big sites that does something similar - except, say 1000x as big as this - and they have about 400 'items,' each with their own photos, added to their catalogue a day. Given the amount of money they charge per item, I guess they must have at least one dedicated server, while I intend to do this on a (fairly good quality) multiple - domain reseller account (at first), with probably only 20 items total added on the busiest day, only a handful on a less busy day. Anyways, this other site actually encourages their users to send the pictures / catalogue info via ftp and not http upload, 'to keep their site going good and fast', they say. They also don't seem to do very much fancy image manipulation.
Question is this, then. Would it be wiser for me to build the interface so the photos, if they're max size 600K, get uploaded one-by-one instead of allowing six to be uploaded at once? I'd previously been worried primarily about all the fancy image manipulation I'm doing, which I guess I can later divide up into multiple page executions if it's likely to slow things down too much or do something nasty.
Any tips, anyone have experience with this kind of thing? Your comments would be much appreciated.
with probably only 20 items total added on the busiest day, only a handful on a less busy day.
That level of traffic shouldn't pose any problem. I post more than that to my "pictures for Grandma" site (hosted on a cheap shared host) after every holiday and vacation.
