Had a crazy idea to day to use drop box on our CMS server to sync up images added to the CMS with two live servers. Is that crazy or will it work?
Its a hack and know but I quite like the idea of it :)
Anyone done anythign similiar to get image assets shared across multiple servers?
Alternative is to use a CDN like Azure or Amazon but we want to use ImageGen to resize the images and not sure how that would work when saving the images to local cache?
Sounds like a great idea... Only issues we have had with DropBox and Umbraco is with Examine/Lucene indexes, as content is added and changed we have had duplicate nodes appear in the results :S
But can't think of any issues with just syncing the actual media folder? Like to hear how you go about implementing it... Could do the same thing with Nopcommerce thinking about it, as have the same issue with that.
Are the 2 sites using the same database? as if not, you'll need to also sync the entries in the db. If you are, then I guess it could work.
I've been playing with something called AeroFS for a while, which is kinda like dropbox but sync only, so it doesn't get saved in the cloud, it just uses P2P to keep both ends in sync. Could be worth a look too (though you currently need an invite http://www.aerofs.com/)
We are trying to use 1 CMS server and then 2 webservers which use the data from the CMS (exported as XML on the fly) to actually serve the website. So the CMS is never actually publicly available. As a result we won;'t be running Umbraco on the to websites, no databases just XML in memory and on disk. So syncing the images up shouldn't need to know about the DB if I do it right.
Hmmm trouble is all the media items are stored as folders with just their node id's. Damn, forgot about that. That bit might need some more thought.
Drop box to sync image/media content?
Had a crazy idea to day to use drop box on our CMS server to sync up images added to the CMS with two live servers. Is that crazy or will it work?
Its a hack and know but I quite like the idea of it :)
Anyone done anythign similiar to get image assets shared across multiple servers?
Alternative is to use a CDN like Azure or Amazon but we want to use ImageGen to resize the images and not sure how that would work when saving the images to local cache?
Sounds like a great idea... Only issues we have had with DropBox and Umbraco is with Examine/Lucene indexes, as content is added and changed we have had duplicate nodes appear in the results :S
But can't think of any issues with just syncing the actual media folder? Like to hear how you go about implementing it... Could do the same thing with Nopcommerce thinking about it, as have the same issue with that.
Are the 2 sites using the same database? as if not, you'll need to also sync the entries in the db. If you are, then I guess it could work.
I've been playing with something called AeroFS for a while, which is kinda like dropbox but sync only, so it doesn't get saved in the cloud, it just uses P2P to keep both ends in sync. Could be worth a look too (though you currently need an invite http://www.aerofs.com/)
Matt
aerofs looks good.
We are trying to use 1 CMS server and then 2 webservers which use the data from the CMS (exported as XML on the fly) to actually serve the website. So the CMS is never actually publicly available. As a result we won;'t be running Umbraco on the to websites, no databases just XML in memory and on disk. So syncing the images up shouldn't need to know about the DB if I do it right.
Hmmm trouble is all the media items are stored as folders with just their node id's. Damn, forgot about that. That bit might need some more thought.
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