NopCommerce Azure Blob Storage/CDN plugin

SQL Azure quickly becomes inefficient (in term of speed and price) if you store your products files/pictures in SQL Azure or in Azure websites. The Azure Blob Storage plugin eliminates this issue and permit the upload, the download and the deletion of  product/orders files and nop pictures stored in the Azure Blog Storage/CDN.


General Features
    Easy to integrate into your nopCommerce.
    This is the first product of this category that was ever released.
    User Interface 100% localizable.
    Minimal dependency on common 3rd. party libraries. This avoids very common problems that many nopCommerce extensions have (one breaks another because it overwrites a common library with an incompatible version. Many libraries, even being compatible are signed, which means an extension will not work with other version different from the one being utilized when it was built. You'll not have this problem with Azure Blob Storage plugin

Release 1
    Load all Downloadable files from Azure Blob Storage/CDN


Release 2
    Load all Product, Category & Manufacturer images (thumbs) from Azure Blob Storage/CDN
    Supports Azure CDN
    Supports Multi-Store nopCommerce with separate CDN URL for each stores

http://shop.dev-partner.biz/nopcommerce-azure-blob-storage-plugin

Release 3
Performance optimization.

I may be interested in this plugin.  I have noticed that the performance of Azure DB is terrible even at S0 and S1 performance levels.  I would like to take as much work as possible away from the database.  Although this plugin is kind of expensive.

Once I tell nopcommerce to store product images on the web server instead of the database: do I just create a CDN endpoint with the origin domain pointing to my domain?

Or do I have to move all images to a blob storage?

>Once I tell nopcommerce to store product images on the web server instead of the database: do I just create a CDN endpoint with the origin domain pointing to my domain?
>Or do I have to move all images to a blob storage?
You will need to move all images to a blob storage and you will be able to do it by using our plugin.

Can this plugin also serve things like CSS/Javascript and other website images from the CDN or is it only for product images?

It's for product/category/vendor/etc images and also for downloadable files. Our plugin does not support scripts and CSS because it is possible to use Azure CDN for your script bundles manually, with the following caveats:
- You must manually upload the bundled scripts to blob storage.
- In your .cshtml theme files, transform the rendered script/CSS tags to use the Azure CDN. For example:

@Html.Raw(Styles.Render("~/Content/css").ToString().Insert(0, "http://<yourCDNName>.vo.msecnd.net"))

Also I suppose we will add Azure Bundle (js, css) support to our plugin soon.

ivinsky wrote:

When it will be available for js and css? and does it work with product and category pics we use on website?

dianoche wrote:
We are adding Amazon proveder to our plugin.
Could you please provide us with more details of what you expect from js and css support?

dianoche wrote:
yes, it works with product, manufacturer, category and other pics from the picture table.

Release 4
    Ability to add new storage providers
    Supports Amazon S3/CloudFront CDN


Please let us know if you need storage provider not already implemented.

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A little tutorial of how to make nopCommerce storage plugin work with amazon s3 client