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    Cloudflare Image Hosting

    If you're already using cloudflare, is there any reason other than bandwidth/disc space to use cloudflare image hosting? Its also not clear whether you need to change image urls/manangement (aka, not just uploading via image machine). Any one know before I spend time reading down the marketing material rabbit holes (sigh).
    Bruce Golub
    Phosphor Media - "Your Success is our Business"

    Improve Your Customer Service | Get MORE Customers | Edit CSS/Javascript/HTML Easily | Make Your Site Faster | Get Indexed by Google | Free Modules | Follow Us on Facebook
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    The primary difference is you're in control of, and responsible for, the stored images, and they replicate/update as changes are made. The normal service is just allowing their data centers to cache images on-demand if you serve a reasonable cache expiry, potentially resize / optimize depending on plan type and options, and then of course putting up with them not immediately updating if you make changes or purging the cache and taking that hit until it repopulates. A given data center won't get the images into cache until requested, and then they'll expire at some point unless you utilize a long cache time and then change image names when they're updated to ensure cache busting.

    So, it's a good option if you want your images in their data centers everywhere and updated as soon as you make changes, assuming you've got an integration with that service. That can be especially handy if you're using the same images across platforms, like Miva Merchant, marketing, print, etc. and want to ensure there is one authoritative copy of the image in question that everyone uses.
    David Hubbard
    CIO
    Miva
    [email protected]
    http://www.miva.com

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      #3
      excellent summary david. thanks!
      Bruce Golub
      Phosphor Media - "Your Success is our Business"

      Improve Your Customer Service | Get MORE Customers | Edit CSS/Javascript/HTML Easily | Make Your Site Faster | Get Indexed by Google | Free Modules | Follow Us on Facebook
      phosphormedia.com

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