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HttpHandler for Image Resizing

Is using an HttpHandler for image resizing the best way to go? 

If I have a site that gets a ton of hits, will the server be constantly pegged resizing all those images? 

Anyone have any experience, advice to offer a HttpHandler newbie?

 

Print | posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 11:48 AM

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# re: HttpHandler for Image Resizing

left by Hal Lesesne at 2/17/2006 12:35 PM Gravatar
I have used an HTTPHandler for image resizing with a good deal of success and have never noticed much impact on the server (Although scaling for the application being used was never more than 15-20 concurrent users).

Have you considered implementing and HTTPHandler that does the initial image resize and then persist the new image to either the filesystem or to a BLOB in your DB? That's what I would do. You could even set an age on the record and scavange at a certain interval... So that rarely used images do not take up space.

Just my .02c.

Hal
http://hal.lco.net
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