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by charliesome 5090 days ago
> All static items served from s3/cloudfront. Posted images pushed to s3/cloudfront. (Or wherever filehosting is cheapest).

Congratulations, you just massively blew out your bandwidth bill. The cheapest option is to host your static content yourself, especially if you're serving over a petabyte of it per month.
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soup10 5090 days ago
It really doesn't matter where you host the static/image files, as long as it's completely separate from the application server and doesn't eat into it's resources.
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kalleboo 5090 days ago
> We've also seen our image server's RAID array go from being relatively idle to getting absolutely slammed

Sounds like it is?

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