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Very nice website and service, only thing I found an issue with was the max file size - 8MB.

This is very small. Imagine if someone wanted to take a bunch of photos straight out of a camera, send it to Kraken for optimisation then have it back. They would have to do optimisations client-side beforehand, which kind of ruins the point of Kraken.

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Kraken's focus is on optimizing images for the Web. We think the 8MB limit for a single image on the "Enterprise" plan is more than enough for the Web.

I'm building a service right now that is a community site for people in the fashion photography (photographers/models/etc) world. The images that these people upload are sometimes much bigger than 8MB but we still need to optimize them for display on the web.

Would love to use something like Kraken as we'll be processing a TON of images, but 8MB limit would be a deal breaker.

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