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I have seen broken images hosted on the website and a few EarthCaches have been disabled by an Admin... Some images do not show on the cache pages that are hosted by Groundspeak... traditional caches.

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https://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/95136_200.jpg

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCGZRV_heenan-lake

 

Who is https://www.nginx.com/ ? and display is just a marketing tool that that has failed. Is this just another '3rd party' sucking up geolocations and not providing Groundspeak images?

 

 

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17 minutes ago, x_xenolith_x said:

Who is https://www.nginx.com/ ? and display is just a marketing tool that that has failed. Is this just another '3rd party' sucking up geolocations and not providing Groundspeak images?

 

It's a load balance system that distributes the requests to several servers so there's no overload on one while others are idle (simply put).

 

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The cache page for GCGZRV uses an old and outdated link to the way images used to be hosted, at "img.Groundspeak.com."  The CO needs to edit their page to reference the image at https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/c8902e24-bb71-49f1-b925-22482f2c63d6_l.jpg

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So all the images from many years ago are just wiped out?

I haven't looked, but are the first photos from the beginnings just gone? Many of the first hiders posted images on your site. Could not grandfather them in before moving to some 3rd party cloud account. It's a real shame that this approach was taken and leaves your database open for attack from a bad actors moving to a 3rd/4th party. Groundspeak spent money to throw away history.

 

I wonder if my personal information is safe? Amazon /AWS is not a great solution.

 

This resonates on my initial payment to Groundspeak. When I joined, their was a fire in the data center and was left with a website down for a week or so. Giving my credentials to your site and forwarding to an company that has an XML feed to every major/minor web present company on the planet. This does not sit well with me.

 

Just want to play the the game and have fun and not have to worry of some data breach. It's inevitable using these scripts.

 

Have updated my 120 day outage rebuttal on Google Earth also.

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On 5/24/2019 at 2:03 PM, Keystone said:

The cache page for GCGZRV uses an old and outdated link to the way images used to be hosted, at "img.Groundspeak.com."  The CO needs to edit their page to reference the image at https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/c8902e24-bb71-49f1-b925-22482f2c63d6_l.jpg 

 

The correct link is

https://img.geocaching.com/cache/c8902e24-bb71-49f1-b925-22482f2c63d6.jpg

or the smaller version

https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/c8902e24-bb71-49f1-b925-22482f2c63d6.jpg

 

Using S3 link, as you suggested, will work only as long as GS is using Amazon S3 for their image storage. You may argue that GS will never change the operator but you never know. It changed to S3 only some years ago.

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5 minutes ago, Keystone said:

The point being, that link is easily ascertained from reading the cache page.  "Old" image URL's in the gallery converted to Amazon image farm links automagically when HQ changed image servers.  The image wasn't "lost."

 

This link https://img.geocaching.com/cache/large/c8902e24-bb71-49f1-b925-22482f2c63d6.jpg

 

converts automatically to

 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/c8902e24-bb71-49f1-b925-22482f2c63d6_l.jpg

 

As you see, both links will show you the same image. The problem is that the first link does not change if GS desides to change form Amazon S3  to any other service provider but the second link stops working in a such situation. There is no problem if GS will never consider saving money by selecting a cheaper service in a future.

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