Hi, friends! Sorry for the trouble π In short, by switching to the new outfit URLs below, we'll decrease our hosting costs by $20/month! π
This change applies to image embeds, for{" "}
img
tags in your lookups and petpages. Other kinds of
outfit links will stay the same!
When we started hosting outfit images back in 2012, we didn't know a
lot about web infrastructure, and we weren't thinking a lot about
permanent URLs π
We uploaded images directly to{" "}
Amazon S3, and gave you
Amazon's URL for them, at amazonaws.com
.
Since then, we've grown a lot, and our Amazon costs have increased a lot too! These days, it costs about $35/month to serve outfit images from S3βand $20 of that is just to store our millions of outfit images, including the ones nobody visits π
So, we've moved our apps to a new, more cost-efficient way to share
outfit images! It's decreased those costs by a lot! But, until we
delete the old images from Amazon S3 altogether, we're essentially
paying $20/month just to support the old{" "}
amazonaws.com
URLs.
I looked hard for a way to redirect the old Amazon URLs to our new service, but it seems to not be possible. And it seems like $20/month could be better spent another way, especially when we think about hosting these images long-term π
We haven't removed these images from Amazon yet, so old image URLs will continue to work until at least August 1, 2021 ! Then, we'll replace the old images with a short message and a link to this page, so it's easy to learn what happened and fix things up.
I'm truly sorry for breaking some of the lookups and petpages out there, and I hope this tool helps folks migrate to the new version quickly and easily! π
Thanks again everyone for your constant support, we appreciate you so so much!! π And please let me know at{" "} matchu@openneo.net with any thoughts you haveβit's always great to hear from you, and it always make things better π