Big amount of files

[Cudla]

I got an e-mail from server administrator:

Onyour hosting is one or more directories that have too many files.
Directory: ./www/images/phocagallery/fotogalerie/thumbs
File Number: 13059

We ask you to check the situation and find a solution. It's not directly contrary to our rules, but from a programming point of view, it is inappropriate solution that could eventually lead to a deterioration in the quality of your web hosting and its slowdown.

Please, how to solve it?

[christine]

Willkommen Cudla,

nachdem ich "fotogalerie" sehe, schreibe ich in deutsch, wenn es OK ist?

Da können mehrere Faktoren mitspielen. Zu wenig space? Welche Joomla/Phocagallery Version, PHP usw.
Hast Du eine URL, die Du uns bekanntgeben könntest?
Wie groß ladest Du die Bilder auf?

http://www.reisefotografien.eu/phoca-be ... inzufuegen
Schau Dir auch die Einstellungen dazu an: http://www.reisefotografien.eu/phoca-be ... t-joomla-3

Sorry, hab mehr Fragen auf der Stirn als Du. Jedoch macht es einfacher, je mehr Informationen wir von Dir erhalten.

Liebe Grüße, Christine

[Benno]

HI,
kurze Zwischenfrage: Stimmt das denn wirklich? Du hast 13059 Dateien im Verzeichnis /www/images/phocagallery/fotogalerie/thumbs ??
Falls ja, macht es mehr als Sinn in /www/images/phocagallery/fotogalerie/ (schon wegen der Übersichtlichkeit) mit Unterverzeichnissen zu arbeiten...

Freundliche Grüße,
Benno

[Cudla]

Dear Christine,

URL is: http://tabornici-chrudim.cz/index.php/fotogalerie
Phoca Gallery: 3.2.8
Jooma: Joomla! 2.5.28

[christine]

Hi Cudla,

oh sorry about the german - it's like fotky or so
Thank you for your link - we will have a look ....

kind regards, Christine
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Edit now: I would say, that the fotka galerie (separeted folders) is well-structured & the images are not too large. It seems to be a generell space problem with your hosting? Of course, you have many fotky.

[Jan]

Hi, only to extend the Christine's answer.

Phoca Gallery uses thumbnails - each image has three thumbnails (small, large and medium) as default - for some specific cases (masonry, etc.) you can extend the count of thumbnails - so each image will have more thumbnails.

The reason of using thumbnails is saving time, memory and bandwidth of server. For example, if e.g. 50 users visit your page at the same time:

1) you can display for them original images - e.g. 2MB of jpg or only large thumbnail e.g. 400KB - this is why thumbnails are important
2) you can create the thumbnails dynamically for each users but then if your server will make e.g. 50 thumbnails at one, it will stop working - so this is why the thumbnails are created at the beginning and then not more.

So having more thumbnails is good for server - to save memory, time, bandwidth, etc. but of course it is good to store the images to different folders (different categories).

13059 files in one folder means, you have cca 13059/4 (one original, three thumbnails) 3264 images there. I think you need to check if, if this is really true or if there are some obsolete files, etc.

Jan