Gallery

THX · #1 05-14-2008, 01:10 PM

I know that we are not allowed to make image-gallery based websites (ie. a flicker-like website) according to the TOS. What about a gallery that is secondary to the site? I'm making a pc game website and I would like to put up screenshots and images of the game, is this allowed?

#2 05-14-2008, 01:19 PM

The issue of course would not be the gallery install, but rather your expected CPU use from it. If it overloads the server, that's where you'll run into problems. My suggestion is to use your best judgement; if you expect it to be extremely popular, be linked to from other sites, I would recommend against it. Otherwise, gallery is fine.

calmiller56 · #3 05-14-2008, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by GatorJamyn

The issue of course would not be the gallery install, but rather your expected CPU use from it. If it overloads the server, that's where you'll run into problems. My suggestion is to use your best judgement; if you expect it to be extremely popular, be linked to from other sites, I would recommend against it. Otherwise, gallery is fine.

I'd Love to play this PC game you got goin :-)

Image galleries do take ALOT of resources but like jamyn said. it has to get really popular. Chances are yours wont be :-) sorry!

THX · #4 05-15-2008, 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by calmiller56

I'd Love to play this PC game you got goin :-)

Image galleries do take ALOT of resources but like jamyn said. it has to get really popular. Chances are yours wont be :-) sorry!
http://iphonez4free.info/goimage.jpg

I created and managed a gaming fansite with 160,000 forum members, 3.7 million posts and far too many million visitors than it deserved. Maybe I can reproduce that success?

(it's guildwarsguru.com btw )

Though if it is successful I will have to upgrade to a dedicated, so it's a moot point I suppose. My new website is www.sporenormous.com, it's not quite ready yet though.

jakeruston · #5 05-15-2008, 09:01 AM

I'm a bit surprised that it would take a lot of resources...

#6 05-15-2008, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by jakeruston

I'm a bit surprised that it would take a lot of resources...

As stated above, small gallery sites do not take a lot of resources. Larger sites do. It's php based. Almost anything php based (or scripted in general) that gets a large amount of traffic is going to run into resource issues on a shared machine. Static HTML takes almost 0% resources. Scripted languages consume considerably more processor time.