Hi, I have a site, http://rayh.co.uk which is basically my personal home page and nothing more than a hobby. However, on the site, i am currently storing images in the database, purely because i can. But i wonder, how much will the server load be affected when pulling binary data out of the database? compared to the file system? i assume its going to be quite a lot higher. DO you reckon it would be better to scrap that and store the images on the file system? Ray Hilton -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]