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I'm making a website for my church that comes with a image gallery. This will most likely be the bulk of the space being used on the server. Right now I have maybe 3GB of images and I'm wondering if it makes sense for me to use both of these services. Is there any benefit for me to hold the website on Digital Ocean but host the images on S3? I'm not sure if this is relevant, but some visitors on the website will be coming from Korea so I'm not sure if CDNs play a role here.
Should I simply hold everything on DO with the right plan or is it a matter of separating the website from the assets.
If it's only 3GB and won't grow without limit then just use DO storage. Amazon s3 is great when you expect a lot of file uploads from your users, because it will be cheaper in the long run or if you need to serve a mobile app so you'll be able to fetch the image link and present it in the device.
@IsaacBen The photos are only added by the church, and not by other users so I don't expect it to get out of control. I guess sticking with DO storage makes more sense! Thanks for your input!
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