Image Resizer

System Requirements

Supported operating systems

Both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows are supported.

  • Windows Vista SP2
  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 (and R2 SP1+)
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server 10

Supported Windows web servers

One of the following web servers is required to host the image resizing server, although you can use any web server to host the actual application that calls it. For example, you could run both a Ruby server and IIS on the same machine, performing the image processing in IIS, but hosting the application in Ruby, Java, Python, or whichever modern language you prefer.

  • IIS 7 (both classic and integrated mode supported)
  • IIS 7.5
  • IIS 8
  • IIS 8.5
  • IIS Express
  • Cassini, the Visual Studio Web Development Server (WebDev.exe).

Supported .NET Framework versions

  • .NET 4.5.X
  • .NET 4.6.X

Visual Studio 2012 or higher is required for opening the sample projects and source code.

Hosting environments

Any hosting provider offering full trust will work. All dedicated and virtual servers should support Full Trust. Shared hosting plans may not; we suggest avoiding these.

Microsoft ASP.NET has dropped support for Medium and Partual trust environments, and ImageResizer has as well. Microsoft considers Medium Trust obsolete and advises all hosters to migrate to proper OS-level isolation instead.

Some hosting providers (such as DiscountASP and WebHost4Life) restrict (or don't provide enough) bandwidth, making image serving unbearably slow.

Avoid Shared and Free Azure Websites - both CPU and bandwidith use is metered. Basic and Standard tiers are not affected.

We use AppHarbor internally, but often suggest Amazon EC2.