Comment by j on "What is the proper way to add article images to database?"

CommentWhat is the proper way to add article images to database?

stuff ;)

Apr 11, 2017

I perfer cdns so the image is not stored in the database but the name of the image is stored.

That allows you to scale without needing to hit the database for every image :)

Yichen Lu

ux, front end

Apr 12, 2017

That's cool, so it is stored in the cloud? I've try to look up some of them, and cloudinary seems pretty reliable, but pricey. Do you happen to know if there is any opensource ones?

stuff ;)

Apr 12, 2017

well a cdn is basically a cloud yes. I know there are several ones who support opensource (basically pushing their own google rating up with "natural" links).

but I don't know any for free. you could try cloudflare the free package as a reverse proxy this should help your system if you have load problem.

You could just use nginx or another static lightweight server. so the images will be delivered by it. if you already switch them to another subdomain it's easy to change it to a cdn afterwards. (cdn.mydomain.com) or something

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