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Hi Guys

Im hoping my WPMU/Buddypress community will grow massive. Problem i might have is disk space. Currently the default per user is 50MB but that is not alot.

Would be great if there was a plugin or something that allowed users to easily storage their media in another storage provider, eg: amazon s3, azure, etc

now, i know they can manually do this and just link the images etc, but would be great if this was integrated into the admin area.

better yet, would be great if this was free, and supporters could use normal storage….know what i mean?

Tue, 9 Feb 2010 8:55:43
  • James Farmer
    • Founder & Chair (honest)

    Just an idea out there, would WPMU DEV members like something that provided them with unlimited storage powered by us?

    We’ve got S3 etc.a ll setup for Edublogs so I’m thinking it wouldn’t be a big deal… we’d basically just store all your uploads for you.

    Just an idea…

  • member1
    • The Incredible Code Injector

    +1 here.

    Could go something like:

    “Warning! You are now reaching your free storage limit.

    Please delete some files, media etc, OR

    Click here to increase your storage options

    Storage Options Page

    Level 1 = admin defined threshold + admin defined price/mth

    Unlimited = admin defined price/mth

  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    tantannoodles used to work on wpmu but our issue with it was that thumbnails weren’t displayed on the files hosted with s3.

    For us what really would be great would be thumbnails stored locally with the actual files stored with s3. I know that wp.com does this fancy “Stores the popular files locally and the rest with s3” but that seems like overkill (And yet another level of processing that has to be run though) for us. I’m not real hard up for file space but I know clients would like the option of additional space for their clients.

    Maybe a hook of is_supporter as well so one could go the route of “If not supporter, they get local space” while supporter gets the s3 space. Not sure if that would be a plus but local space is probably going to be cheaper than s3 space.

    I could have sworn we were talking about this just a few days ago with the theme files being stored offsite with s3.

  • James Farmer
    • Founder & Chair (honest)

    I’m thinking of simply providing off site unlimited uploads / storage for all users on a WPMU / BP site (probably using S3) as well as maybe automated backups / versioning of your site or something cool like that.

    And of providing that for free to WPMU DEV members – after all it’d be a jolly good reason to keep your membership current / sign up for a longer period!

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    The theme and JS part is the easy bit as they are pretty static, it’s the user generated files that are more trouble :slight_smile:

    Is a time based thing the better solution? Recent images are held locally, after a certain period of time, they are moved to s3 and served from there?

    I’m sure there are a lot of different ways to approach this.