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Stefan Falk
Stefan Falk

Reputation: 25387

How to store and organize uploaded images on webserver?

I am writing a server that allows user to upload images. It appears that most people tend to store those files on the filesystem directly.

My question would be if that really is the way how to do it. I'm not familiar with the capacities of a server but what I'm curious about is e.g. how to make sure that the server does not run out of (hard drive) memory?

I would also like to know how one would organize those files for many different users. Is it enough to just store it like war/images/<user-database-id>/<uuid-for-image>.(jpeg|png) by just using the user ID inside the database or are there a lot more things to consider when it comes to storing images?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 238

Answers (1)

Octopus
Octopus

Reputation: 8325

I think your best bet would be to use a cloud storage system such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace, or MS Azure.

Using a path like the one you suggested ought to be possible but you could also omit the user-database-id if that database already gives you a list of objects owned by that user.

Upvotes: 1

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