Xenforo Xenforo users what's your image proxy cache size ?

Came across this thread on Xenforo support forums regarding the size of image proxy cache What would be a reasonable server disk size for a big forum with SSL on. When Xenforo is used with HTTPS, you want to enable the image proxy so 3rd party references images in posts via IMG tag are proxied via Xenforo image proxy so there is no mixed content HTTPS errors. Xenforo image proxy caches these proxied images for a certain time which means increased disk usage before Xenforo image proxy cache TTL expires the cached entries.

The thread linked to above shows how you can calculate your Xenforo image proxy cache size. So curious what other folks numbers look like. For this forum it's where domain.com is my domain name.

Code (Text):

cd /home/nginx/domains/domain.com/public/internal_data
find /home/nginx/domains/domain.com/public/internal_data/image_cache/  | wc -l ;  du -hs ./image_cache/

which comes to just 613 image proxy cached images taking up 68MB of disk space

Code (Text):

613
68M     ./image_cache/

Or with a bit of extra manipulation use

Code (Text):

cd /home/nginx/domains/domain.com/public/internal_data
(find /home/nginx/domains/domain.com/public/internal_data/image_cache/  | wc -l ;  du -s ./image_cache/) 2>&1 | xargs | while read n s d; do echo "total images: $n total size: $s KB avg size/image: $(($s/$n)) KB"; done

will return

Code (Text):

total images: 612 total size: 69240 KB avg size/image: 113 KB

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Interesting numbers guys.. thanks for sharing. Some of you have larger forums too ! I can't imagine how that linked Xenforo user had to triple their disk capacity to 150GB and still run out of disk space due to Xenforo image proxy local disk caching ! That's some heavy 3rd party image posting activity !

 

@RoldanLT you using an XF Addon for ignore https images ?

 

Ah looked familiar

 

253GB

 

There's a reason why i restrict attachments to smaller max sizes - preventing attachment disk usage blow outs

 

Thanks for sharing

Original poster updated their xenforo thread with this addon installed their proxy cache disk size dropped from 120GB to 77GB !