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John
John

Reputation: 4261

What factors should be considered to move to Amazon Storage?

We have a Django application running on Webfaction. In this application, user uploads lot of images. So, far we have not had any issues. Soon, we expect about 10,000 users. But, I was wondering, should we decide to move to cloud solution like S3? How will the move help us?

thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Mark Lavin
Mark Lavin

Reputation: 25164

Some of the advantages of moving to a remote storage such as S3 are:

  1. Central storage location: You don't need to worry about managing a shared NFS mount as you bring up new webservers to handle additional load.
  2. Offloading requests: Your servers will not take on the load of serving the media.

Some disadvantages are:

  1. Additional cost: You pay for the storage and the bandwidth.
  2. More moving parts: A file system is fairly easy to understand, manage and test. Remote APIs aren't perfect and some of the problems are out of your control.

Upvotes: 1

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