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Agreed, although my pain in the ASS is usually CPanel. For this reason I have started using hurricane Electric -
http://www.he.net. You only get a shell account and nothing else...No Cpanel, no plesk just SSH thank god!
Anyway, I have noticed some funky things that happen with imagemajik and extgallery and RMSoft gallery where they don't handle the conversion of large files. With extgallery in particular I get similar permissions problems.
I found a utility that does batch resizing in Ubuntu that has just been a serious lifesaver. I do this before uploading my photos. If you use Ubuntu check this out for batch resizing photos -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207675&highlight=batch+resize+photo
Note the 5th post by "mcduck"
"Why can't we have a car powered on a mixture of patchouli oil, ignorance, and double standards? There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of that sh1t." - LR