It’s been a day.
Last night as you are aware we were unexpectedly taken off-line.
BCF’s most excellent blog host has plans to move us to a quicker, better server and in prep for that something went wrong.
That was fixed in due course. Of course.
Meanwhile I have been keeping watch on the image optimization program I purchased.
BCF has accumulated over 100,000 images in over 200,000 blog posts during our long and less than illustrious career.
That’s a lot of pics and now they take up so much space the blog has become like an overstuffed pinata as I never much cared to follow best practices for image size.
I have been running the image optimizer for the past 48 hours.
It works as advertised, and so far 15 GB of images have been reduced to 4 GB in size.
But that’s like 15% of the total so it’ll be awhile.
See the cat pic above – 157 KB to 14 KB. Sweet.
The good news is that once running it just hums in the background unattended.
Sorry for the day’s inconvenience and thank you all for your help and patience!
