Max Clark wrote: > I want to use Amazon S3 for file uploads from users (models.FileField). > I have been searching and have come across these > three plugins/examples to use S3 with django... > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/AmazonSimpleStorageService > http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/177 > http://code.welldev.org/django-storages/wiki/S3Storage
Well, there's not much to it, just make sure to go over the Django settings for file uploading and see if they are fit for your needs. However, those libraries do share a common problem: the S3 upload happens within the request-response cycle. That might be okay for small files but if you need to handle the big ones you'll have to use a different approach: save the files to a temp folder, and have a daemon running as a separate process to upload them to S3. Files may not be immediately made available, but that's ok for a lot of applications, and it makes the request-response cycle faster and more scalable, considering you wouldn't be keeping so many threads around at once. I've just completed a full blown solution for this, including the daemons (and separate worker daemons to perform special operations on uploaded files, like video transcoding). I can't release the source, but if you'd like I could probably send you a few snippets privately. --Jonas Galvez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
