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I'm building a project that is going to allow users to upload images to records, and I'm looking at 'future-proofing' the site, and I was wondering which people have experience with and which they would recommend in terms of pricing, usability, reliability, etc...
The project will be hosted on DigitalOcean, through Forge, so 'local' storage will be on that hosting package.
We use Amazon S3. It's great because there are packages for laravel to hook into their API, including out of the box solutions with Laravel 5.
We've been using Amazon S3 for 3 years now and I don't see the need to migrate our files elsewhere. Also note, we run a stateless architecture so all our files are on Amazon and not 'local' where the application code resides.
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