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Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:55:26 +0200

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Patrick Cole schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:55:25 +0200

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hello
We are setting up an Hubzilla instance to support a large community that will post lots of pictures and videos.
Challenge: The Hubzilla official guide doesn't explain how to store media files from users (like photos and videos) to an external cloud storage (example Amazon S3 bucket) or CDN (example Amazon CloudFront). Hence, these photos and videos are getting stored to a NFS filesystem attached to all web application servers. This is costly and may degrade performance as we scale.

Question: Is there a way to offload the Hubzilla media to cloud Storage or CDN like Amazon S3 or CloudFront? For example, WordPress has a similar plug-in https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/ . If no such plug-in, is there any other way we do to accomplish this?

Are there any best practices for storing pics and videos?
Appreciate your responses.
Regards

Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:06:24 +0200

Bekah S

bekah@myliberty.social

I have mine setup to use Wasabi as an s3bucket. You create the "store" folder there and symlink it to hubzilla. You need to make sure the linked bucket is always mounted before the server starts. I have a cron job that checks the mount when the vpn restarts.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 06:23:14 +0200

Grouchy

grouchy@hub.grouchysysadmin.com

Another thing to consider is that Hubzilla stores thumbnails in the database by default. You may want to convert that to use filesystem storage instead, which will use the "store" folder @Bekah S referenced.

As far as connecting to S3 or other services, it's basically just a matter of replacing the "store" folder with a mount to the service you're using. I don't know of any other options.

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:44:05 +0200

Patrick Cole

ppcole@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Thanks for the responses. Greatly appreciated