How slow will your sever become with lots of photo uploads?

[Cannabis Ape]

I'm asking because I don't have experience with how a server and xenforo will react. I already know as soon as I go live people will upload lots of photo's (its 18+ related) and I'm not really a fan. I prefer they embed their photo's.

That being said, is there a way to disable attachements and photo uploads?

 

[Paul B]

Attachments can be disabled in the options and via permissions.
You will also have to disable the proxy as that will save a local copy when embedding.

However, I suspect removing that functionality is only going to alienate users.

I would posit that having a page full of embedded images which must be loaded from external hosts will be slower than locally stored content (assuming your server is configured and specced correctly).

 

[Mr Lucky]

But you can limit the file size and dimensions of images

 

[rdn]

You can auto resize image attachment using the built in XF feature (something like max 1920px).
Use TH addon to compress even more.
Do not allow GIF upload or limit attachment to 250kb.

150-200kb average size per picture is easy (JPG/PNG).
6 picture per 1 mb and 6k pictures per 1GB storage.

Offload attachment to something like S3.

 

[D.O.A.]

700+ users for us online, 400,000+ images optimized internally with the pay mod here, it isn't much of an issue to be honest on a fairly low end dedicated server. Images hosted locally on SSD.

 

[rdn]

Where did you got this data?
I'm using the same addon .