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Twenty-four things you can do to make SMF go faster (Updated June 16th, 2010)
MrMike:
--- Quote from: live627 on June 29, 2012, 05:54:49 PM ---You'd leave the avatars dir alone, as it's reserved for the av gallery.
1) It's not retroactive.
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So ideally this would be done before any users have uploaded their own avatars? In other words, configure this immediately after installation?
If I understand the point of this change, it's only user-uploaded avatars that place the extra burden on the system, is that correct?
live627:
Yes.
Xhoi:
thank you, needed this tips really
Theatre Publicity:
You can also add a subdomain for images in your hosting account and simply point it back at the root domain. Change the image folder location in theme and layout settings to the new subdomain (all other data the same, just change the sub) and voila! parallel loading of image files. Sounds like you could do the same for avatars as well and maybe smileys as well (do subs for each for max impact).
Theatre Publicity:
I can confirm that the subdomain trick works - at least on Godaddy.
Add subdomain to your godaddy hosting account, point it at the root domain folder where you have your SMF forum.
Change the upload URL (only) to
--- Code: ---http://subdomain.example.com/etc/etc/etc
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and now your avatars load in parallel rather than waiting for connection.
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