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06-01-2011, 03:57 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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Windows VPS - Short term
Afternoon everyone. Here is the skinny. I have about 11,000 pictures on Flickr that I want to transfer to a new photo hosting service. I am thinking the best way to do this is by downloading all of the pics (I dont know the exact size) to a VPS (Windows) due to local BW caps, and the high speed of datacenter connections. So a couple of questions.
1. Any other way of accomplishing that I am trying?
2. Is a Windows VPS the only way?
3. Anyone know of any companies that rent VPS by the day?
4. Any thoughts as to how much disk space is needed?
Cheers,
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06-02-2011, 03:30 AM #2Junior Guru
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Using a Windows VPS for this job is a pretty ingenious solution. I'm not familiar with the Flickr control panel, but it's also possible that you could use a regular web hosting account with shell access to 'wget' the files directly to your web space.
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06-02-2011, 06:58 AM #3Web Hosting Guru
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I dont think the wget command would work here, as you would actually need to know the exact file name (flickr creates some pretty obscure paths for their storage). The reason I am suggesting Windows is that there are multiplr Flickr Download tools for Windows.
Thanks for the info.
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06-02-2011, 07:17 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/flickrfs/
Mount your flicker account in linux to e.g. /home/flickr then simply cp the files over to a local dir done.
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06-02-2011, 07:17 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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You might want to look at this.
http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/59759/?search=qooptanfwc
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06-02-2011, 07:17 AM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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Good Morning,
I'm not sure what flickr has the photos as..
But i had a look in my picture album and my average jpg file is 2.5mb . So 2.5 x 11000 is around 27GB .
Also take into consideration the size of windows itself. It varies from version but i think windows 2008 once installed is over 10gb.
I would personally go with a windows vps with a 50GB HDD to be safe.
Regards.
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06-02-2011, 07:19 AM #7Web Hosting Guru
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Thanks for the advice. I am gonna go the Windows VPS route, however, I only need it for a few hours/days. What is the best option for the EC2?
Cheers,
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06-02-2011, 10:56 AM #8Disabled
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Last edited by anon-e-mouse; 06-18-2011 at 10:16 PM.
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