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Sascha Mayr
Sascha Mayr

Reputation: 341

What is the best solution for saving images within a rails application?

Initially I wanted to host my application on Heroku, but since the file-system on Heroku is read-only, I would need to store uploaded images on Amazon S3 or something similar.

The pictures mostly have mobile phone camera quality (I think something between 500kb - 1MB). I would like to also create thumbnails of those pictures with Rails and save them.

Since I don't know how much traffic I will have, the whole system should be scalable.

Is there a better/cheaper alternative to the above (Heroku + S3), e.g. storing images in the database or other hosters?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 720

Answers (1)

Granville Schmidt
Granville Schmidt

Reputation: 399

This really depends on whether you want to stay with a PaaS (i.e. Heroku, Azure, etc.), or if you want to go with a IaaS (i.e. AWS). Given that you stated Heroku, I will assume you want a PaaS. I'm not sure of the exact cost difference between services (but I can get this for you if needed), but combining Heroku + S3 + (Paperclip || Carrierwave) = an incredibly fast solution that scales. Then in the future you can look into cutting costs, once you prove your idea.

Upvotes: 1

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