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Hi everyone,
I’m running a VPS setup on DigitalOcean for a project that’s pretty image-heavy. The site showcases hairstyle and fashion content, and some pages (like textured fringe haircut) have a lot of high-quality photos.
I’m worried about performance as traffic grows. So far I’ve:
Enabled basic caching with Nginx
Compressed images with TinyPNG
Set up a CDN, but I’m not sure if it’s configured optimally
My questions are:
What’s the most effective way to balance high-resolution photos with fast page loads?
Is there a VPS-level configuration tweak (NGINX, Apache, MySQL) that helps the most with image-heavy sites?
Any recommendations for image formats (WebP, AVIF, etc.) that work best without losing too much quality?
Would love to hear how others optimize sites like this — thanks in advance!
Arnold Hendriks
Scott Hilbert
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Jules Raffoux
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