Hi guys,

I am (still) building that Ecommerce website using one of your templates and HikaShop.
i have finally got a lengthy ,csv ready to work with the related images.

There are many thousands of products, I am fairly sure it is best practice to keep the images on a separate server to speed things up for site visitors so my question is;

Would that be well served with a commercial Dropbox server? Or do you have another suggestion for speed and safety?

Hi

Do you have an active membership with Hikashop?
If so they may best be able to advise on this

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul,
I do and will post this question there now..Thanks

Thanks

If you could post their reply that would be great

Cheers
Paul

Hi Paul,
Will do. i have also repeated my question on the Joomla forum. Might be a bit of a waste, but you never know.

Thanks

This just in from the Joomla Forum, it sounds like proven way to go. Still I will wait for HikaShop to respond;


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You could consider using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) like cloudflare.com

A free plugin like CDN for Joomla! works well with that.
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I'd wait for hikashop to advise before using a CDN

Cheers
Paul

will do.
Are there known problems with a CDN? I'll Google it. sorry about the ads in Peter's post, I should have removed them before posting on JB forum.

It will add complexity and time to the site build

I'd missed the ads but have now removed them so no problem

Cheers
Paul

Hi,
Actually i did know of the CDN's just wasn't familiar with the generic acronym.

Yeah i can sure use simple(r) right now!

CDNs can get complicated

Hi,
Here is the response from HikaShop;

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Hi,

You can change the folder where your images are stored by HikaShop with the "upload folder path" option of the configuration. However, that folder has to be a folder of your local web server or it won't work properly.
Now there are solutions to link a folder of your server with a third party storage server/service but it won't help for speed.
Safety is not a concern for the images.
I would simply recommend to keep it like it is by default. Sending images to clients is not a lot of load, and if you need more speed, it's better to subscribe to a CDN service which automatically serves your static content (images, CSS, JS files) for you without changing any configuration on your website."

My plan is to simply place the images in the Joomla media folder and see how it works in practice.

Sounds a good plan

Cheers
Paul