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[dzine-hub]

Photoshop is good for editing images individually. Bulk resampling is the way to go. There might be a host of bulk image resizing utils out there, but perhaps the oldest among them is IrfanView. This comes free, is a little less than 1MB download file and resized about 1000 images in less than 10 seconds on a Dual Core system!
We use this to bulk resize our images when we upload thousands of auctions on ebay.

Im really not sure why you wish to have your own server. Might serve your need but watch out for the connection speed when you have thousands of visitors seeing your listings. The images might never load due to bandwidth issues!

[Jester]

Originally Posted by craigc

Not sure if anyone else does this but I actually run a secondary machine with Linux on it which is online 24/7 - I built the machine from scratch and installed an 80% energy effecient power supply unit in attempt to cut the elctricity bill.

I've installed apache web-server and basically from my main windows machine I can access the HTML folder and copy the photo's over that I want to host.

You would ideally need a static IP address to do this or a DNS server to point to your IP address which you can easily update if the IP changes.

I guess, some technical skills involved with this kind of setup but it works great for me. I also host my CSS there so I can update my listing design on the fly.

Yeah I wouldn't need my own server, the hosting I have is fine for me. I don't get a huge amount of traffic on my listings that exceeds my hosting limits yet, so it's all good.

I like the idea of hosting a dedicated external CSS, I don't know why I didn't think of this before, so thanks for that.

[craigc]

No problem Jester, it works out very handy if you want to update the design of multiple listings on just 1 edit.

[UK_Web_Design]

Hi There

I run a small business, part of which designs websites and hosts them. As a result I have an account that allows me to provide unlimited webspace, with unique FTP accounts etc all built in. As a favour to users of this forum, I would be happy to supply some space to anyone here who needs some space for hosting pics for ebay.

I found I was spending probably 3 times as much per listing fee on pictures, because I was too lazy to just upload and copy the code into the listing. It's really easy, so if anyone wants some free space let me know and I'll get you some, with a username and password to FTP it.

I also have a website with a web-based FTP program built into it, so if you don't have an FTP client, you can use that too.

cheers