Thanks a lot for the quick response, Tom. I like your idea of using S3 -- or in our case, Rackspace's Cloudfiles. Django-storages was recommended to me in IRC. I think I'm going to try to follow that route as long as I don't have to modify a third party app we're trying to use too heavily.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Kurtis <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > We have an Nginx front-end with a cluster of Django application > > servers. What are some methods of handling user uploads in this type > > of an environment? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Very open ended question... > > Abstract the data: store uploaded media on S3, serve from S3 > Replicate the data: store uploaded media on the backend that it is > uploaded to, replicate via rsync to the other backends. > Centralize the data: push uploaded media to a centralized store (eg > CIFS/NFS) that is available to all backends > Distribute the data: use a distributed file system (eg Lustre/HDFS) to > make the data available to all backends > > along with many other techniques. > > Cheers > > Tom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
