Cloudimage

Simple but great and efficient product!

Commentaires : Clearly a time saver and the support has been great so far

Avantages :

Very easy to set up and no unnecessary features. It does what it says: resize your images on the fly backed with a great CDN.

Inconvénients :

Not I can think of at the moment. Sorry :)

Cloudimage is one of the products that you don't know you need, until you get it, and wonder how you

Commentaires : We use CI on our VueStorefront based ecommerce platform that uses a magento backend.
We have thousands of products, and CI simplifies our image delivery to end customers. Of all the issues we have had, image delivery, optimisation and such has not been an issue with cloudimage at all.

Avantages :

Cloud Image offers optimisation in at least 3 distinct ways with one very simple integration: - Image optimisation and compression. - Image scaling and custom size delivery. - CDN Localised delivery. CI offers a selection of premade integrations and plugins to support a wide range of existing solutions. The full list is pretty extensive but, we use the VUE one. We even got a custom feature implemented in house, and the CI team loved it so much, that they bought it back into thier own codebase. CloudImage ticks all the boxes, and in my opinion is the market leader in amongst an admittedly sparse market. All issues we have encountered have been small and been resolved swiftly by our contact at CI

Inconvénients :

CI, while being priced similarly to market competitors, is expensive. It is something that a business could roll thier own version of with the right amount of time and capex and make fair savings over CI's offering. One gripe of mine would be that CI doesnt appear to use closest match image sizing between different requested sizes (lets say in 100px tranches) and instead renders a new pixel perfect version of the original for every new with requested. This inflates cache size somewhat (and potentially traffic too if the same image is used in multuple places), though would love to be corrected on this!

A well working product for optimising images for your website.

Commentaires : We use to scale images for one of our client facing applications where we host hi res version of images and use Cloudimage to provide optimised images.

Avantages :

Easy to get started and easy to implement in your website. A lot of control on the output.

Inconvénients :

No way to automatically empty the cache or set a limit to the amount of cache your want to use. The admin is a bit clunky, but it works.

An image CDN that delivers performance,

Avantages :

Extended feature set with precise settings Great CDN performance Progressive pricing tiers Excellent onboarding + customer support

Inconvénients :

A bit complex at first glance CDN bandwidth is a bit steep (but negotiable) A great security feature require contacting support to be activated (that will change)

A great image manipulation service

Avantages :

Ease of connection to existing storage Easy image manipulations

Inconvénients :

No functionality provided for uploading, though this wasn't such an issue as it ended up connected to my own S3 bucket