I am looking for a good strategy for setting up a thumbnailing service on the Amazon EC2 free tier +S3, with only the essentials.
After trying a few Lamp configurations on the Micro instance, 610~ MEGS, I am usually left with around 50-200 megs of memory for the actual image processing. There has to be a better way, with an even smaller footprint.
One idea would be to install Debian Squeeze + Php 5, – would this be all I need? Just Shell commands? No apache, nginx, lighthttpd, etc?
I haven’t tried the tutorial as featured in the docs here: http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1602
as it seems to be unnecessarily complicated and expensive with too many moving parts.
Any ideas, links to tuts or duplicate posts would be a great starting point.
FORGET THIS!
After consulting with my buddy, Jaisen, who runs theopenphotoproject.org, he suggested using imagemagick for resizing a set of thumbnails before uploading.
Before uploading. Heh.
Why overcomplicate things? Sometimes the easiest way is still the best way.