Is there a maximum to number of panoramas in one project?

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Hi all,

I wonder, is there a maximum to the number of panoramas in one project? For a potential client I will create a massive tour of about 350 panoramas. I'm not really worried about walking through the tour once it's published, but more about the project containing 350 x 40MB panos. That's 14GB of data just in one project and I don't know if the software is able to handle.

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I think this question has been asked before. Hopki replied... no limit.

However, your limiting performance issues you should consider:

Your clients hardware... cpu RAM, Server and Internet connection speed
Your clients visitors hardware and RAM and Internet connection speed
What if 1000 visitors visit the project website all at the same time. Can the server handle the load?

Think about IF you are asked to edit or expand the project? Make your project easy enough revise the project in the future.

Just guessing here.
In designing the project you might consider separating the topics into logical or regional areas of interest.
Instead of having 1 massive project.... suggest say 10 separate project groups... flowing from a central html page

Like a project about Gouda Cheese. Dairy, preprocessing, post processing, storage (curing), Sales, Shipping locally, Shipping internationally.

Yes when we lived in Germany, one weekend we drove over to and visited Gouda... even bought some Gouda Cheese too. Great product.
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Guten Tag Dave,

Thank you for your clear and humorous reply. Talking in terms of cheese is the way to go for someone like me :)
That makes sense, to cut the tour in smaller pieces, also while shooting. Of course, I could also create a test version with 350 dummy panos, just to be sure it works.

Cheers!

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Hello Dennis,

we have a customer that regularly creates projects with > 10.000 panoramas, so there is no real limit. We also processed Jeffrey Martins 450 GPixel Prague panorama without any problems, so also in this direction, there is no real limit. You just have to make sure, that the cache file can fit on your hard disk. (You can change the location to an empty hard disk in the Pano2VR settings).
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Hi Thomas,

So robust, good to know!
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My 'the first hand' experience is that the only limit is the scratch disk space when compiling the project - not the number but the resolution of panoramas is the factor, but I compiled projects with hundreds or even thousands panoramas with even gigapix. res. panoramas.
Sure you need a good server to provide the service for a smooth upload but even there it is a matter of few miliseconds difference when downloading the thumbnails, e.g. project with 1K panoramas - most of users won't even notice.
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From the server-side, this really isn't very intensive. All it's doing is pumping out a bunch of small files, something that even the most limited server can do quickly. Nor is there any really different between 1 and 20,000 panos other than storage. All the real work is being done on the client. Speed is going to be determined by the number of connections on the client-side, bandwidth, and protocols used. That means setting up the server for https (actually http2) and using a CDN. You may also get a speed bump by using a SSD on the server, but I expect that would be less than any of the above.
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Hi,
in tomorrows webinar, 7th Oct 2020 I am covering working with large projects.
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