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Originally Posted by pburness
Where did I say I wanted the image permanently hosted on my computer? If you are referring to post 39396 then you've mis-understood. What I would like is the ability to upload the image directly from my computer into a forum post without having to upload it onto a web server/repository first.
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The database is on a web server, so you've still got to upload it to that web server.
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Making a call to the internet and having an image served can take just as long and probably longer than accessing the image directly from the forums database. I don't believe the database hosting will be that much impaired to be honest, as many organisations are using similar methods for huge userbase communities without detrimental performances.
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Given the number of times the database for this site has fallen over in the last few months I'd disagree.
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So technically there is no reason why it can't be done - if it's a funding / priority / preferrential engineering reason then thats a different discussion.
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It's all the same discussion.