Does Imgix require a cloud storage account?

  • Resolved treb0r23

    (@treb0r23)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hi There,

    Your plugin looks fantastic.

    I’m new to this whole area so sorry if my questions are a bit dumb!

    I would like to use imgix to serve images for my WordPress site.

    I note in the imgix docs that imgix can use a normal web server for Image storage.

    I’m wondering if I can feed my images directly to Imgix from my WordPress site with this plugin, or do I need some cloud storage too?

    Any advice gratefully received!

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  • Plugin Author interfacelab

    (@interfacelab)

    Imgix can work that way, but this plugin can’t. The plugin replaces all of your image URLs in your site with ones that point to Imgix. So if you want Imgix to pull images from your site, where would it pull it from? It would be possible to add, but I can’t see the effort being worth it when S3 is so cheap and, in my honest opinion, it’s just a bad practice to keep your media on your wordpress server to begin with.

    Your S3 bill for 50,000 images totaling 10GB of space is going to be less than a dollar.

    https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

    Thread Starter treb0r23

    (@treb0r23)

    Thanks for the swift reply.

    It’s not so much the costs involved, just a desire to keep things as simple as possible. I can see that it would take a bit of configuration to allow imgix to access the media files on the WordPress server and then also rewrite the media URIs in the theme files.

    I’ll probably just do as you suggest and get myself an S3 storage bucket.

    Thanks again!

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