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Posted by Oswaldo Zarate
Oswaldo Zarate
35,612 Points

What's the best practice to store large resolution images?

I'm thinking of building a photography subscription website. There will be some free photos to download but you could buy a subscription to see all the photos and be able to download them.

If there's going to be a lot of photos, should I store those in my hosting and upload them to Wordpress?

Also, I'm thinking of using WooCommerce and WooCommerce subscriptions. Is that a good aproach?

Oswaldo Zarate
Oswaldo Zarate
35,612 Points

I've heard about using a CDN to store videos instead of hosting those yourself. Is there something similar for photography?

4 Answers

Nathan Williams
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Nathan Williams
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,851 Points
Nathan Williams
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Nathan Williams
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 6,851 Points

S3's pretty popular for file hosting; and you don't have to worry about having huge disks on your app server as the site grows. You can also generate access tokens to restrict access to content users haven't purchased, etc.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I second S3, that was my thoughts too.

Dave Meier
Dave Meier
8,063 Points
Dave Meier
Dave Meier
8,063 Points

I built http://picography.co and it uses S3 for the downloadable files and then MaxCDN caches them which serves them with a nice URL for people.

For the preview images and all general site assets (css, js, etc.) we have a second MaxCDN subdomain to help speed up the site up globally.

Hope this helps!

Jerry Babaev
Jerry Babaev
33 Points
Jerry Babaev
Jerry Babaev
33 Points

You didn't mention anything about the technology. Where do you want to store, what is the size of the image files, etc. But, if you have some large number of typically large image files (less than 10MB) into an RDBMS, BLOB is definitely the best option. It is meant for exactly these use case -- space efficient storage of binary data and get some great images from https://rfclipart.com/ to practice with it.