At globo.com we have near a billion images (we are a big portal). Can you imagine pre-generating that many images every time a new format gets added?
We serve everything with thumbor with a Varnish cache in front of it and we're very happy with it. It has enabled our designers to work with any image size they can think of.
We use Thumbor at Yipit, and we are very happy with it. One thing that was not mentioned was extensibility... With thumbor it's easy to create new plugins and filters to extend your installation set of features.
Definitely... We get around 50M page views/day in our website. And since we are a media company we need to have a storage of images from celebrities, sports and news in general.
At globo.com we have near a billion images (we are a big portal). Can you imagine pre-generating that many images every time a new format gets added?
We serve everything with thumbor with a Varnish cache in front of it and we're very happy with it. It has enabled our designers to work with any image size they can think of.
If you guys need more info, please check thumbor's docs: https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor/wiki/