I installed the Piwigo image gallery application through Softaculous, and started to build a photo gallery, but my site was suspended for excessive server usage due to numerous image conversion operations. Piwigo, like all image gallery applications, creates thumbnails and other resized versions each time an image is uploaded; it was apparently this process that resulted in the excessive server load.

This happened even though the image files were not huge (JPEG, 1600x1200 pixels max), and I had uploaded fewer than 100 images. After the suspension I spaced out my uploads to once every five minutes, but that was still too much and the account was suspended again. So it seems that even though Piwigo is available, it is not feasible for a normal usage scenario.

So is there another recommended image gallery application that will not result in these issues? Ten different gallery applications are available through Softaculous (http://www.webhostinghub.com/softaculous-applications.html), but I couldn't find any documentation of which ones are practical to use through WebHostingHub on a shared server.