Store Photos in Cloud?

  • Resolved Glowball

    (@glowball)


    2 weeks, 6 days ago

    I use NextGEN Gallery on two sites on my server to store and serve up almost 100,000 images. It’s not perfect, but it’s working. I’m running out of disk space, so before I upgrade I thought I’d look for another way to store all of those images. Is it possible to store them in a cloud solution instead of on the server? The sites are just vlogs and I don’t sell the images, just display them. I probably don’t have time to migrate to a new solution. Thanks!

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  • Hi @glowball,

    Thanks for reaching out,

    Currently, NextGEN Gallery doesn’t support importing/exporting the image to cloud storage. I will add a vote on your behalf to this feature request. Also, there is no known workaround for the time being.

    I apologize that we can’t provide what you’re looking for right now, but I appreciate the suggestion and any other details you may be able to provide! It’s always helpful to get insights from our users.

    However, I recommend you to use?WebP?image format that’s the most lightweight web image format now to save some disk space as well as to compress the images, which in sum can give up to 75% space reduction compared to the non-compressed JPEGs.

    I also suggest checking this wonderful article regarding the images’ optimization for some further helpful details:?https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/speed-wordpress-save-images-optimized-web/

    I hope this helps! Could you please let me know if you have any questions?

    Thanks! ??

    Thread Starter Glowball

    (@glowball)

    I just bought more disk space instead. I’m already uploading smaller images than original (all are under 1MB each). I’ll look into the WebP format — thanks for that. Hopefully you’ll support offsite storage in a future version!

    Hi @glowball,

    Thanks for the update! It’s great you added more storage and are uploading smaller images. WebP is definitely worth trying for smaller file sizes.

    I’ll pass along your suggestion for offsite storage to our team. Let me know if you need anything else!

    Thanks!

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