How does Photon work exactly?

  • Resolved nopewhy

    (@nopewhy)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m trying to speed up a very, very image heavy website (~30gb of images right now, although I hope to be able to thin them out in the future) with mostly gallery posts.

    Now photon promises to speed up loading time. But how does it work exactly? The CDN serves the images, alright. But when I upload new images, are they being stored on my server as well?
    What about all the old images? If I’d open a post from 2017, will the images still be served by Photon? Or can it fetch only newly added images?

    And how will the page/my posts behave if I decide to cancel the Jetpack-subscription one day?

    I’d truly appreciate an answer to these questions as the Photon pages themselves are really quite superficial, unfortunately.

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  • Hi there,

    Let’s review your questions together ??

    The CDN serves the images, alright. But when I upload new images, are they being stored on my server as well?

    That’s correct. Photon references the images from your server, and those images must remain on the server. If they’re removed Photon won’t have anything to serve, and you’d want to avoid that.

    What about all the old images? If I’d open a post from 2017, will the images still be served by Photon? Or can it fetch only newly added images?

    Photon serves new and old images alike.

    And how will the page/my posts behave if I decide to cancel the Jetpack-subscription one day?

    Jetpack’s Site Accelerator (https://jetpack.com/support/site-accelerator/) is a feature of every Jetpack plan, including Free. If you were to remove Jetpack, however, then your images would again be served from your local (server) disk.

    Best!

    Thread Starter nopewhy

    (@nopewhy)

    Thank you very much, Jeremy,

    that really answers all my questions. Thanks for the quick as well as easy understandable reply.

    Happy to help ?? Cheers!

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