Imgix – Image Processing as a Service Reviewed

Re:Imgix – Image Processing as a Service Reviewed by gniquil on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:31PM (#12915978)

I use imgix at work and love it. However, there's one more downside which the article didn't mention, is no protected or authenticated assets, Say if you only want to serve an user some image if he's logged in. Other than, it's a perfect service.

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Re:Imgix – Image Processing as a Service Reviewed by Veratyr on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:43PM (#12916084)

Another one is that its "master" based pricing really relies on you using it their way, as a CDN with few files read many times.

For example for the price of their $10/mo minimum service, you can get 2 droplets + 2TB bw from DigitalOcean or 2000 "master images" + 50GB bw from imgix. If you need to process each image once (maybe for a machine learning task) and it takes say 5s (pngcrush can take a while), you can process 518k images in a month on DigitalOcean vs. only 2000 on imgix. Even if you're doing a lot of processing, the fact that they require you to bundle a CDN makes it prohibitively expensive.

It'd be really nice if they dropped the CDN.

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