Great, that solved the WebP part, thanks!
But still hitting limits….
Upon more investigation, I believe the issue is the asp_index_ignore is just too large as is hitting the max packet limit of 16mb. I have contacted the host, but they wont increase this over 16mb, which seems to be a standard security level. We are indexing 5500 items. Does that sound right to you?
Is there another way to pre-filter the index that doesnt include the creation of the ignore list?