I started this project lil over 2 years ago. At the time I was just learning perl and started my script as kinda a learning experience. I later got some offers to build a website around it and it grew into something very profitable for me. It has grown to a point where I have to start paying for additional bandwidth(why I want thumbnails made auto now) and additional memory for more clients. I have worked on it quite a bit in the past couple years as I keep getting more knowledgable in how to use it. If 8.5mb is the best I can do, I will have to deal with that but if I can get it down even a lil it multiplies so many times over and I wont have to worry about max client availability as much.

My Script is just one big long script instead of in packages which is a lil part of my newbishness. The only thing seperate from the main script is the script to upload pictures from the websites. I will defiantly look into the imagemagick and imager and I am hopeful that will significantly reduce my bandwidth cost. I guess for the amt of mem used I may need to write some test perl scripts to see how they react so I can tune mine.

I am a newbie and do not know what you mean by DB. If it is related to data files, I use my own subs to handle my data files with the use of crypt function.

I have looked at catalyst webpage just now and am not sure if that is really what im looking for but I will read up on it more.

Thank you very much for the help and any additional advice you have is most welcome. :)

In reply to Re: 2 Questions on Images and Mod_perl mem usage by Anonymous Monk
in thread 2 Questions on Images and Mod_perl mem usage by Anonymous Monk

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