Is there a Flickr bandwidth limit, or not? Aug10 '07
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Trying to find an explanation on whether or not there is a Flickr bandwidth limit for paying customers.
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# (1 of 1): Terry Chay » terrychay.com/blog
1 day, 6 hours after the fact. (Sat 11 Aug 2007, 7:03 PM CST)
The reason for the 10MB per photo limit has to do with the way PHP handles file upload. There is a setting for maxfileuploadsize and memorylimit that needs to be kept in check to keep the processes from exploding. Assuming the entire image toolchain can handle it, they could say double the single file upload limits, and PHP does free the memory between requests back into Apache. But you will still have some pretty large child processes running around.
There is also a hidden megapixel count limit due to the fact that they're using imagemagick to do the resizing. Imagemagick convert maps everything onto 32 bit during the conversion and that can cause the uncompressed image to blow the 4GB or 2GB limit at some point.
Of course, these are file sizes not bandwidths. If this were Facebook and were restricted to one thread per login, you’d have a case. If want to test the bandwidth or storage limits of flickr, create more instances and then upload more images. I'd bet Flickr can take as much as you can throw at it.
shrug