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Hi guys, I have my project set which is image uploading site. I have the domain and the vps already.

VPS Specs :

30GB Storage
500GB Bandwith
1GB RAM
100MBPS

Is this can host more than 30,000 pics ?

I'm planning to sell my site .
Place your bids here if you want.

[Asher S]

You probably could store 30,000 pictures or more if they're less than 1mb each. However I'd advise against fill up the storage of a VPS server, you'd get out of space errors pretty fast.

Secondly, you can't really expect to sell a site that isn't launched yet and even if you wanted to sell a site, this is not the right forum for it.

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Sorry about it. Just want to see if someone will bid in a image uploading site.

Anyway thank you for your reply.

[rds100]

I don't see a problem with hosting 30k images (or more) in a VPS, but please make sure your scripts doesn't put all the 30k images in one directory - this would cause very bad performance on any kind of server.

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Yes I would buy a new vps for 1 directory again.

[rds100]

No i didn't mean that 30k images on a single VPS is more than OK. But 30k images in a single subdir of the filesystem is bad. Much better to have 30 subdirs of 1k images each or even 100 subdirs of 300 images each (of course all on the same VPS). It is just that the filesystems don't handle well a single directory with so many files in it - and performance would not be very good if your scripts stores all images in one subdir.

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Oh okay. You mean every 1 directory contains 300 or 1000 images only ?

[rds100]

Exactly. A direcotry with 300-1000 images should be OK. A direcotry with 300k images would be very slow.

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Okay got it Thanks for the information I would sell this site soon

[EDIS]

Originally Posted by rds100

Exactly. A direcotry with 300-1000 images should be OK. A direcotry with 300k images would be very slow.

I can not confirm this:

root@vs16:/home/files# ls -l | wc -l
891361

root@vs16:/home/files# time cat censored.ext
real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

If you store the filenames in a Database, and dont rely on `ls` or similar you can virtually store unlimited files in a single directory without any speed loss or server load.

William