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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:34:46 +0100
:Revision: 		2
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa


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Gallery to Flickr
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:Description:
    I seized the boring time in the past days (I've had a really bad cold) and
    migrated my photo gallery to Flickr. So far I hosted the photos on my own,
    using Gallery. While Gallery is a great tool that allowed me to
    comfortablly manage and present my images, it has one great flaw: I host
    it by myself. That means a) that serving images from my server costs quite
    a bit of performance, if you involve PHP and even a database, and b) that
    I need to take care for updates myself. The first issue is a minor one,
    since my server is powerful enough to serve the job and not that many
    people are interessted. The second topic is much more disturbing, since I
    need to keep track about security updates all the time and need to bring
    an update in place ASAP, if one occurs.

I seized the boring time in the past days (I've had a really bad cold) and
migrated `my photo gallery`__ to `Flickr`__. So far I hosted the photos on my
own, using `Gallery`__. While Gallery is a great tool that allowed me to
comfortablly manage and present my images, it has one great flaw: I host it by
myself. That means a) that serving images from my server costs quite a bit of
performance, if you involve PHP and even a database, and b) that I need to
take care for updates myself. The first issue is a minor one, since my server
is powerful enough to serve the job and not that many people are interessted.
The second topic is much more disturbing, since I need to keep track about
security updates all the time and need to bring an update in place ASAP, if
one occurs.

.. __: http://photos.schlitt.info
.. __: http://www.flickr.com/
.. __: http://gallery.menalto.com/

Long story short, I played with the idea of migrating to Flickr for a longer
time now and the only point that was keeping me back was the migration effort.
Luckily a little Gallery module, called `Gallery2Flickr`__, exists, which
eases the job quite a bit. Therefore I seized the chance and performed the
migration of all existing albums by now and you can find my image collection
on Flickr, now. Sorry for destroying all the external photo links this way,
anyway you can still reach my gallery on `http://photos.schlitt.info`__ and
through the long way `http://schlitt.info/applications/gallery`__.

.. __: http://gallery2flickr.sourceforge.net/
.. __: http://photos.schlitt.info
.. __: http://schlitt.info/applications/gallery


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