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byjudopenguin, July 7, 2010
I was looking for some methods to improve website speed and found this handy plugin which also cuts down on database maintenance.
The script seems to run very smoothly on a linux php5 setup and on shared hosting, anything that optimizes your database is going to have a positive impact on the shared hosted community.
I emailed the creator Andrew a few pre-sales questions and was surprised at what a cool ninja webdude he was in his precise and professional reply.
This is worth every cent of that $5 it feels good knowing that $5 is going right in to the hands of the developer, and not some greedy corporate type that would want $150 that you can never get in touch with :).
All the best in the future Andrew.
The script seems to run very smoothly on a linux php5 setup and on shared hosting, anything that optimizes your database is going to have a positive impact on the shared hosted community.
I emailed the creator Andrew a few pre-sales questions and was surprised at what a cool ninja webdude he was in his precise and professional reply.
This is worth every cent of that $5 it feels good knowing that $5 is going right in to the hands of the developer, and not some greedy corporate type that would want $150 that you can never get in touch with :).
All the best in the future Andrew.
byjudopenguin, March 15, 2009
I had tried
* SMF
* PHPbb
* vBulletin
* Fireboard
* Kunena
* Fbb
None of them worked anywhere near as seemlessly as ccBoard, all the bridges had issues, and in comparason ccBoard provides everything you need in a dummy proof logical way!.
To be honest, I think it's ccBoards simplicity and looks that really gives it the thumbs up, and it shows the others up as being over bloated, especially when it comes to the database querys.
So I looked for a long time to find faults in the board and I only found two, here they are:
* Some areas of the forum use images from the administration folder (this was an issue because I password protect that folder - but I have fixed this by editing the template)
* There are no SEF things happening (I have read you are implementing this on the next release in the helper.php file)
You are nuts not to try this!
Thankyou Thomas
byjudopenguin, March 15, 2009
The mod itself uses the PHPthumb classes, which by design use the GD library, and if ImageMagic is installed on the server then the PHPthumb library takes advantage of it, to generate thumbnails faster.
However this is not the case with Auto Thumb, it requires ImageMagic to run, regardless of your GD library install.
So the author has disabled PHPthumbs ability to use GD library, which is what most people have the only option of using when they have there Joomla on a shared hosting plan.
SO for me this was a HUGE dissapointment.
Lets hope they see the light and fix this massive drawback.
Owner's reply
Thank you for your feedback. We have put GD support on the todo list for the next version of AutoThumb.