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S3Saver notes from Sacramento Drupal User's Group
At the Sacramento DUG I did a demo of our S3Saver module.
The module is incredibly effective at moving files from a local files dir to S3 at save time, and has very little impact on a drupal install itself.
You can view the original powerpoint presentation, and download the (incredibly alpha) module as well.
There are a few drawbacks to this approach, as I mentioned in our talk:
- doesn’t work with ImageCache because of the way that it handles file saves (doesn’t use filesavedata).
- won’t work with private files.
- won’t work with image previews for the same reason imagecache doesn’t.
- needs a bunch of patches to get going (look at the presentation.. there’s a bullet list of things you gotta do).
The end result is that it isn’t quite as ubiquitous as we’d hoped, and we went with a distributed file system as a solution instead. We may resurrect this at some point, but in the meantime I’m posting the code up here in case it’s useful to someone.
Great Presentation Aaron!
Aaron, your presentation was really exciting. Thanks for posting the alpha module. Can’t wait to try this out.
Very Cool
Nice start on this. I have just begun to play with S3 (No, that is not why it went down the other day ) and think that this has great potential for the rest of us who can’t afford CDNs.
If possible, you might consider saving your .pptx as a .pdf.
Thanks!
PDF it is :).. Just changed
PDF it is :).. Just changed out the link above.
Really like what I see so
Really like what I see so far, guys. Any chance you could create this as a project on drupal.org so I could lend a hand? I have a pretty intense project that could very well benefit from a stable release of such a module.
I'd like to..
I really would like to, but for two things:
Feel free to download it here for now, if needs be I can incorporate any changes you might have and republish it. Otherwise I can create a google code project and add you to it.
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