Photon for Wordpress experience

[pugh]

Has anyone tried switching on the Photon for Wordpress CDN/image caching feature?

If so, did you experience any problems and have you noticed any improvements?

[KaneJamison]

Haven't had a chance to use it myself, however based upon the product page it looks like it could be an effective platform to test as a low budget CDN.

Be sure to review the limitations listed on that page. None of them strike me as that big of a deal unless you're using animated GIFs - but it does timeout on large image uploads so that could affect you if you're not resizing huge images prior to uploading them.

I would be worried about whether it fails gracefully. In other words, if you uninstall it, will your image links revert back to self-hosted, or does it permanently change them? Would be a hassle to revert a large number of links.

[pugh]

Sorry for the delayed response Kane.

I have been running it for a while now and seems to be OK. Some speed test results have suggested that it  may have slowed page load times but too early to say yet so will test further, then test again once it is disabled.