MediaTemple question
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- Bozilla
Guys anyone of you who are hosting with MediaTemple, do you know if GD2 library is installed under PHP.
GD2 library is an extension that allows you to generate real-time image thumbnails from bigger images.
It should be installed, because almost everyone has it, but I have to make sure, because I want to recommend my client to get hosting from them and we have an application that needs to run GD2 library.
Thanks.
- mrdobolina0
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- phirschybar0
Does GD2 library cause the image load to happen slower than it would if you had the actual thumbnail file up there instead?
- ashley0
GD is installed & enabled on my account with (mt).
I use it for thumbnail generation.
- rocha0
I've checked a couple of servers hosted on MediaTemple and they are bundled with GD 2.0.15.
- rocha0
Also, processing an image with any program (GD, ImageMagik, or anything else) is going to make the image load slower because the image must be loaded, manipulated, spat out before being sent to the browser.
The size of the image, the amount of processing applied to it, and the quality of your scripting (not to mension the quality of the GD libraries), the speed of the server, and the level of traffic hitting the server are going to determine whether or not the difference in speed is going to be noticeable.
- Bozilla0
ashley, thanks a bunch. That's all I needed.