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Where do you host your images?

Madza on September 30, 2020

How do you approach image hosting for image-heavy sites?

Do you use services like Cloudinary, or Cloudflare for caching and CDN or do you have some ther cost-effective solutions?

Mateusz Iwaniuk • Sep 30 '20

AWS S3

Madza • Sep 30 '20 • Edited

What's the learning curve, tho? 👀

Mateusz Iwaniuk • Sep 30 '20

Docs, I guess. I have built one of my aps using S3 using only docs and some random articles

Joan León • Sep 30 '20

Btw, if you are interested in modern image formats go to join to "ImageReady: An event featuring talks about modern image formats" on Friday Oct 2.

👉🏼 meetup.com/es-ES/Toronto-Web-Perfo...

Lakshya Singh • Sep 30 '20

Can someone ban these people they are ruining the community.

Pedro Cruz • Sep 30 '20

why? It's a good question in my opinion

Muhammad Uzair • Sep 30 '20

This guy asks post tons of questions daily, and don't even bother looking at answers then. Something is wrong there.

Madza • Sep 30 '20

Thanks for reporting them, seems like devs removed the comments ❤🙏

Ayush Kumar Singh • Sep 30 '20

I just compress them as .webp and use them at my own dedicated hosting.

Joan León • Sep 30 '20

Is a good option, but with a service like Cloudinary the API send to the browser the better optimization and supported image format.

Safari (iOS or Mac) don't have support to webp format.

Ayush Kumar Singh • Sep 30 '20

you can set up for fallback .png and .jpeg images for not supported platforms.

Joan León • Sep 30 '20

I know it, recently I published the same approach with AVIF format twitter.com/nucliweb/status/130228...

Ayush Kumar Singh • Sep 30 '20

Is AVIF a new format I have no idea about it?

Joan León • Sep 30 '20

Totally, take a look to the awesome post jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-la... by Jake Archibald

Luther Lowry • Sep 30 '20

Just started using Cloudinary for my last project. So far, it's been pretty awesome. Now, if I can just figure out how to get images to automatically upload after being referenced in my Gridsome site, that would be even nicer (so far, I've been manually uploading images as needed, but it would be nice to have a single place to do everything).