Store pictures as files or in the database for a web app?

Question

My question is fairly generic and I know there might not be an 100% answer to it. I\'m building an ASP .NET web solution that will include a lot of pictures and hopefully a

Answer 1

For web based applications, you're going to get better performance out of using the file system for storing your images. Doing so will allow you to easily implement caching of the images at multiple levels within your application. There are some advantages to storing images in a database, but most of the time those advantages come with client based applications.