Saving images: files or blobs?

Question

When you save your images (supose you have lots of them) do you store then as blobs in your Database, or as files? Why?

Duplicate of: Storing Images in DB -

Answer 1

If I'm running on one web server and will only ever be running on one web server, I store them as files. If I'm running across multiple webheads, I put the reference instance of the image in a database BLOB and cache it as a file on the webheads.