My CodeIgniter app is hosted on a Cloudways server and image uploads are painfully slow. A batch of 10-15 images—many over 500 MB each—takes 30 minutes or more, sometimes fails, and no thumbnails appear. All files come straight from the user’s local drive with no pre-compression. I need an immediate fix that: • Speeds up large-file uploads without corrupting them. • Restores automatic thumbnail generation (GD/ImageMagick or your preferred method). • Leaves me with a short note of the settings or code you changed so I can replicate on staging. Access to the Cloudways panel, SSH, and the CodeIgniter repo is ready as soon as you accept. If you do a solid job, I have more CodeIgniter maintenance tasks lined up and would like to work together long-term.