Serving Images with on-the-fly resize

Question

my company has recently started to get problems with the image handling for our websites.

We have several websites (adult entertainment) that display images like dvd cov

Answer 1

In the time that this question has been asked, a few companies have sprung up to deal with this exact issue. It is not an issue that's isolated to you or your company. Many companies reach the point where they need to look for a more permanent solution for their image processing needs.

Services like imgix serve as a proxy and CDN for image operations like resizing and applying overlays. By manipulating the URL, you can apply different transformations to each image. imgix serves billions of requests per day.

You can also stand up services on your own and put them behind a CDN. Open source projects like imageproxy are good for this. This puts the burden of maintenance on your operations team.

(Disclaimer: I work for imgix.)