Scalable Image Storage

Question

I\'m currently designing an architecture for a web-based application that should also provide some kind of image storage. Users will be able to upload photos as one of the k

Answer 1

We use MogileFS. We're small scale users with less than 8TB and some 50 million files. We switched from storing in Amazon S3 some years ago to get better control of file names and performance.

It's not the prettiest software, but it's very "field tested" and basically all users are using it the same way you will be.