A few questions before signing up

daveed · December 1, 2005

I have alot of photos that I would like to upload.

The upload interface is very imprtant to me. I need to easily upload alot of photos:

I checked out the uploading help page, and it appears that uploading is handled through an activeX control from persits software. My questions are:

1)Whats the upload limit for pro accounts per upload. For example am I limited to 100MB of uploading per session?

2)Smugmug resizes the photos. Are the photos resized on my computer and then uploaded to smugmug or is all the resizing done on smugmugs server.

3) Just in general how reliable is the uploading? Does it work pretty good?

Thanks for any help.

Mike Lane · December 1, 2005

daveed wrote:

I have alot of photos that I would like to upload.

The upload interface is very imprtant to me. I need to easily upload alot of photos:

I checked out the uploading help page, and it appears that uploading is handled through an activeX control from persits software. My questions are:

1)Whats the upload limit for pro accounts per upload. For example am I limited to 100MB of uploading per session?

Why there's a fancy universal beta java uploader that doesn't have any limits at all

daveed wrote:

2)Smugmug resizes the photos. Are the photos resized on my computer and then uploaded to smugmug or is all the resizing done on smugmugs server.

It's all done on smugmug's servers. Your photos on your computer are not altered in any way shape or form!

daveed wrote:

3) Just in general how reliable is the uploading? Does it work pretty good?

Thanks for any help.

The uploading is awesome. It's just never something I have to think about at all. Like anything, there are times when things break, but that's very rare and things are fixed as fast as possible.

Hope that helps!

DJ-S1 · December 1, 2005

daveed wrote:

2)Smugmug resizes the photos. Are the photos resized on my computer and then uploaded to smugmug or is all the resizing done on smugmugs server.

Just to clarify: Smugmug does not resize your ORIGINAL files, they are still intact and untouched. What they do (on their own server, not yours) is make smaller sizes that load faster so your web page is quick. But if you - or anyone with priveleges to that gallery - want to see or download the original file, it is available.

HTH

DavidTO · December 1, 2005

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Andy · December 1, 2005

Hi Daveed,

Thanks for considerting SmugMug! I can't add much to what the guys here have said, other than we'd love to have you!

And welcome to Dgrin!

Mike Lane · December 1, 2005

Darn it!
Or if you want to help the guy who helped you you can use my referral code

gDw... EDIT: Oh nevermind that's kind of weak.

marlinspike · December 1, 2005

Signup for smugmug now, you won't regret it.

daveed · December 2, 2005

thanks for all the help guys. This seems like a very helpful, friendly place.

Thanks again.

A few questions before signing up

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