On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:26 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On 7/3/07, Clinton Gormley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) In the DB, store the name of the server to which your file has been > > uploaded > > I try to avoid files in the DB. It always ends in tears.
Sorry - I meant, store this in the DB: - ID: 1234 - type: image/jpeg - path: 12/34/1234.jpg - server: images1.domain.com So that your program would construct a URL pointing to the correct server, or a translation layer would forward the request to the correct server > > > 2) Store your upload in a shared partition (eg on a SAN, NFS, > > iSCSI/OCFS2) > > That's ok if you need them on every server. Many applications just > upload a file and process it on one server, so they don't need this. Sure - I was thinking primarily of image hosting. thanks Clint > > - Perrin
