Hello,

I have a very large installation with K2 and a lot of pictures. The cache folder in the media folder is around 100.000 images large. I had some trouble with downloading all these pictures via FTP because most servers have a limit on the amount of items you can list. So I did some digging and found out a way to tackle this problem.

I have a comment regarding the image handling. Isn't it an idea to split up the image saving into folders with for example the year and the month (media/k2/items/src/2018/11/image.jpg , and , media/k2/items/cache/2018/11/image_S.jpg etc)

Because this way the server won't get slowed (Linux has a hard time with folders that are extremely large, filled with individual files) and you can access the files a lot easier with most configurations of the servers out there. I think also that K2 gets a speed boost if you go this route. Maybe something to think about?

Also I think it's an idea to built in a external server for spreading of the load of the website. For example use the Amazon S3 servers for your images. With a large website, images that gets pulled from the same server tend do dramatically slow the website down. A native solution where you directly upload the images to an external server would be nice.

Also regarding SIGPro, I really would like to have an option to use a external server to directly upload the images to, and also let the plugin directly generate the thumbnails (this gets done every 120 minutes standard). I think this could also drastically make the plugin more valuable and useful for websites with lots of images.

Is this something that is on the list of to do? Maybe I could help in getting this to work? I really like the K2 component and the Sigpro gallery plugin, but these 2 things are one of the most significant problems I encounter.

Thanks for reading.

I know the file limitation is FTP related, but large folder with loads of files do hinder the perfomance of Linux: serverfault.com/questions/147731/do-large-folder-sizes-slow-down-io-performance It's better to distribute those files in subfolders, as I mentioned in my original post.

Ok, looking forward to the v4 of Sigpro.

As I read posts from out in the wild from other sites, this is one thing that always gets misunderstood about K2.
The way i see it K2 is a mousetrap that comes with the cheese! Keep up the good work, looking forward to the coming advances.

Hello,

I have a news portal with K2. The cache folder is the only thing that worries me in K2. I publish ~5-6 items per day (~2.000 per year). My cache folder has ~15.000 files but in a few years folder will have ~100.000 files or more. I worry about performance and hosting provider's reaction.

In my opinion, separating files in many folders (for example '/2018/12/' like in Wordpress) would be a good idea. Is it possible to implement this solution in the future releases of K2?

At the end, thank you for really great component. I am waiting for K2 Pro :)

Thank you for your reply :)