too many images in one directory

  • We built our word press site in 09 2018. Our website is very heavy image based to showcase what we do. What we didnt realise is that all the images loaded into one folder called 09/2019 in wp content / uploads. We are moving our site from HG to Go Daddy and when they tried to migrate they told us that this file was too heavy and we need to break it into sub folders. We have tried this today both using filezilla and also manually on cp panel file upload. The issue we have is we couldnt change the URL so the new images we moved were showing the old URL and linking to the old folder and not new folder. Was told to try Velvet Blue and that isnt working either. Now im stuck with a website overloaded and not running properly under Hostgator who told us to move to a new provider. Go Daddy cant migrate because of this folder and its severly impacting us. I really need help as we have been working on this for over 6 weeks and no further forward and neither HG or GD are really helping us. Thanks in advance

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    If you create a spreadsheet with OLD URL in one column and NEW URL in another, you could write a script to update the database values for each image. However, I don’t know of any existing scripts that would do this, so you’d probably need to build something from the code of a plugin like “better search replace” or similar. My opinion is that if you’re not a good programmer yourself, you’ll need to hire a developer familiar with mySQL and something like perl, python, or PHP. You might check at jobs.wordpress.net

    You could compress your original images, and upload the compressed version to the same-named folder on the new host. Then run Regenerate Thumbnails, or use the Dynamic Image Resizer plugin which generates the other image sizes only when they are requested.

    Now im stuck with a website overloaded and not running properly under Hostgator who told us to move to a new provider. Go Daddy cant migrate because of this folder and its severly impacting us. I really need help as we have been working on this for over 6 weeks and no further forward and neither HG or GD are really helping us. Thanks in advance

    Additional suggestions (to what others have said already)…

    1) Find a host that has knowledgable technical staff that can perform a task as basic as moving a folder from one server to another (shouldn’t matter what’s in the folder, really!)

    2) If you decided you should stick with Big Daddy, go to jobs.wordpress.net and hire a sysadmin who can perform such a basic task for you.

    I feel you’re forcing yourself into a false dilemma here… waiting for 6 weeks just because your new host cannot move a folder… when there are hosts and technical people out there who can do this for you in 30 mins!

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    PRO TIP:

    You didn’t mention why Big H is kicking you off, but I’ll suppose the many images and traffic to your website may have made you an unprofitable customer to them (there goes the advertised “Unlimited space” and “unlimited bandwidth”!).

    After you manage to pull this migration off, I’ll highly suggest you put a CDN (like the free CloudFlare) in front of your website. Your users are likely to experience a faster website. But more importantly, this will take all the image-heavy load off Big Daddy’s server, keeping your costs down.

    If you don’t do this, brace yourself up for performance issues and forced upgrades at Big Daddy, after your website is restored and your website’s traffic begins to climb again.

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