Re: turn shared hosting server to external image storage hosting

i tried to ping photobucket. it takes 400ms for here. i only want to create a small gallery locally. our ISP have a very slow connection outside our country. so i want to take advantage of any available server here. cloudfront nearest server in asia is in hongkong. i try to look in to it. On 12/28/08, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM, paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com> wrote: > >> do you have any idea how to do this. i have a small vps about 10GB >> space. i live somewhere is south east asia where solutions like Amazon >> S3 is incredibly slow. (500ms ping time). >> >> i have a simple php gallery. But dedicated server is quite expensive >> ($100/month). searching around, i found several local hosting >> companies provide a very cheap shared hosting. ($100 / year, 300GB). >> local server with 40ms ping time. >> >> i am interested to use that shared hosting just as storage for images >> of my gallery and a cheap vps to store the database. >> >> What is the best way for me to accomplish this? Amazon S3 using REST >> etc. Is it possible to write a simple storage (REST system) like >> amazon s3 in PHP? is there anyone wrote this before. I am interested >> in your solutions.. > > > have you tried photobucket ? we have an api in php which is freely > available and we use a CDN for caching all around the globe. in fact, id be > interested to find out how it stacks up over there, in your neck of the > woods. > > -nathan >