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Will it work as a CDN also ? So they can access the images directly on that server in the browser.
Feb 13, 2023
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Hosting or service, where could our Laravel application store images?
We have a Laravel project with a very specific requirements on a server. Therefore were are renting and managing server ourselves. Now we need to allow users upload/delete images. In first stage it will be hundreds of GB of data. And very soon we will go into TB and growing further.
I don't want to deal with it on our server. Backups etc. So I'm looking for some external service/hosting, where could our Laravel application upload/delete images. Our server is in central Europe, Prague. And all the users will be here too.
Could you recommend some service/hosting?
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@Sinnbeck Yes. Imagine something like Amazon. Admin can upload/delete image of product but image can be also displayed in the frontend shop.
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@merrychristmas Where your web application is hosted, and where user-uploaded files are stored, don’t need to be the same. You could run your app on a “traditional” host and upload files to somewhere like Amazon S3.
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@martinbean Yes, something like this. In ideal case Laravel can work with that service. I think Storage has support for some 3rd party services, but I know anything about it.
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@MerryChristmas Yes, Laravel supports using S3. If you open your config/filesystems.php file, you’ll see there’s an example S3 configuration in there already.
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After some research I find Cloudinary. Does anybody have an experience with them? Is it right service for my needs?
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@MerryChristmas Maybe start by asking them the enterprice pricing? I can that the largest plan is 600gb and you said you are storing many TB
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