How well does ZenPhoto do with sites that 500 - 1000 visitors per day?

Currently I am considering transitioning to ZenPhoto and intending to use the web gallery to feature ~500 images (each 300 - 500 kb) which represent the pages of an open-source educational alternative/study guide. Sample: http://mcatpearls.com/zen/

Thanks, A

The only issue is that the image requests are sent through PHP first, then Apache from the redirection. This is fast, but still a double-hit to the server.

I'm going to implement faster direct-image URLs, but they also have disadvantages in the form of more disk hitting to see if the image is processed or not, but I believe that'd still be better for you...

I think it'll be just fine. The code on both sides is robust and never too taxing on the server, even for two requests. If you can imagine, it's like having two images on the page versus one, except the first image is 0 bytes large. Really not that big a deal.

500-1000 visitors a day is approximately what zenphoto.org recieves, and many of them visit the demo gallery and many of its images. This site is on shared hosting, and performs brilliantly. I wouldn't worry. Come to me if you have a problem, it'll be great to do custom optimizations anyway :-)

Tristan, thanks for the info. That is quite helpful. Is there a less pubic way we can communicate - i.e. email? Thanks! ALfa