There and Back Again

Webthumb.bluga.net has completed its move to a new server. Everything should be running smoothly at this point, but if you run into any problems let me know. If your dns is slow to update, you can use new.bluga.net.

I haven’t been actively blogging as of late, this is not likely to change, but here is some quick Webthumb news. The PHP apiwrapper has been updated, there have been some API updates but nothing recently. One important item is…

Once the dns change fully propagates Webthumb will be back up and fully running. If you had a different apikey on the backup instance you will want to switch back to your normal apikey. Your apikey is viewable on your…

Webthumb hit 5 million thumbnails some time last night. This blows away the last million time, taking just 34 days for this million. On that note contact me if you are interested in bulk purchases of credits. For purchases of…

Error handling for Webthumb job requests has changed. Requests with bad urls are now silently ignored instead of dropping the entire request at the first error. This will fix problems with bad urls in multi-request submissions. Let me know if…

For anyone using Easythumb I have good news and bad news. The good news is the rate for cached thumbnail delivery has been changed to .05 credits. The bad news is the bug where you weren’t getting charged for cached…

Webthumb generated its 4 millionth thumbnail on monday The official time was 2008-08-11 11:09:49. I’ve been making good progress on the thumbnail rates lately, this million was a bit faster the last. If you want to help me hit the…

The server is back up DNS should be updated for most things. Send me email jeichorn at gmail.com and josh@bluga.net if your still having any problems.

Webthumb generated my 2 millionth web page thumbnail yesterday. My first million took 564 days This second million has taken 84 days

A WebThumb drupal module has been added allowing you to easily use WebThumb in a drupal site. I haven’t had a chance to use the module but the code quality looks good.

I’ve added an API call to get the credit status of your account. You can use this to track your usage and to see if you need more to purchase more credits. This feature was added due to a customer…

The WebThumb API docs have been updated. Your feedback on the docs or the API itself would be appreciated. I would like to make a new version of the API at some point, the goal in that would be to…

This Christmas Bluga.net WebThumb has 2 presents for your thumbnailing and web snapping needs. First is the holiday sale, you can get your credits at a reduced price, so use this opportunity to stock up for your 2008 projects. The…

The new WebThumb website has finally been launched. Gone are the days of the super plain website, now were Web 2.0ish.

WebThumb now has the ability to produce PNGs instead of JPEGs for snapshots. The PNGs are about twice the size of the JPEGs but they offer less artifacts and a much crisper thumbnail. Turning on PNG output makes a thumbnail…