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Is anybody using separate image storage?

Chris Bongers on January 28, 2021

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone was using a separate file store for images for instance for a blog. Background: I don't want to store all my ...
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Tapas Adhikary

Hey Chris,

For some of my side-projects, I am using Cloudinary. It has a generous free plan that is enough for my usages. You can check it out from here.

Some of the SSGs(Gatsby for sure) also have the cloudinary source plugin to fetch the images at the build time and do a pre-compile.

Hope you find this information useful.

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Waylon Walker

cloudinary is solid, I have used them in the past a bit.

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Chris Bongers

Very useful thanks Tapas,

Do you know if they offer the option to reupload old images, but keep the link to them?

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Tapas Adhikary

Hi Chris,

I glad it was useful.

Do you know if they offer the option to reupload old images, but keep the link to them?

Upload is surely possible, I have tried. I didn't try the use-case you have mentioned. Worth exploring!

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Mike Bybee • Edited

In addition to the 5GB you get free forever with Firebase Cloud Storage (which you can make private with security rules, auth, etc.), you get 5GB (public only) free forever storage with Firebase Hosting. Obviously, this was designed to allow you to store website assets along with HTML.

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Chris Bongers

Hmm pretty solid, I actually need to check how big my data store would be.
Don't mind paying a bit for it, but nothing crazy to be honest

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Mike Bybee

Firebase only gives you 1GB free with Firestore or Realtime Database, but you could easily do FaunaDB (5GB free forever) or AWS DynamoDB (25GB free forever).

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marcellothearcane

You can check out sirv.com - they have a free plan

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Mike Bybee

If you prefer something compatible with the S3 API, Backblaze B2 offers 10GB free forever.

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artydev

Hy Chris,
Look here postimages.org/fr/
Regards

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Chris Bongers

That looks pretty solid, I must say I'm a bit afraid of these small tools since if they stop existing my images are gone probably

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artydev

yes, you are right Chris, but Google too is not so reliable sometimes

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shadowtime2000

IPFS. Maybe even look into Fleek which has dedicated pinning of files so that it is pretty accessible everywhere.

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Chris Bongers

Cool thanks will have a look

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Chris Bongers

Ah yes, how fast are they with serving?
Also is it possible to alter images?