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uwindsorcss / css-site

The main website for the UWindsor Computer Science Society. Features Discord authorization for server access, as well as event listings and newsletters.
https://css.uwindsor.ca
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Image Storage Solution #44

Closed BorhanSaflo closed 4 days ago

BorhanSaflo commented 2 months ago

We need to find a solution for storing images to be displayed in our gallery. We should explore third-party options for image uploading and storage, such as an S3 bucket service, or consider hosting an S3-compatible solution on our own server.

SyndicateGit commented 1 month ago

We should discuss the solutions available.

AWS S3 bucket: Does CSS have an aws account for S3 buckets? Pricing: First 50 TB / Month, $0.023 per GB. $0.0004 per 1000 get requests.

Cloudinary: Free up to 25GB storage or 25GB monthly viewing bandwidth. Not worth it outside free tier since it's $89/month and they're basically hooked up to an S3 bucket. At past 25GB S3 is more worth.

Postgress Blobs: Slower storage and retrieval than object storage solutions like S3 buckets. Depending on where we host the db (if we're hosting on cloud rather than a self dedicated server at school) it could be more expensive than S3 buckets.

Things to consider: How many GB of images are we handling and thinking of handling in the future? Do we already have an aws account? Where are we hosting the postgress db?

CalderJohnson commented 1 month ago

@SyndicateGit We currently have an S3 bucket created. I'll message you the credentials. It's a pretty feature heavy platform so if it ends up being overkill we can shift to cloudinary or another solution. The scale will be pretty small (a few posts per month, a few images per post) but cloud storage is a useful thing to set up for many of our potential future endeavors so scalability would be ideal.

CalderJohnson commented 4 days ago

We have since begun using Cloudinary as an image storage solution.