Geek asks and answers

What is a good way to store binary files on Heroku?

I use Node.js on Heroku and use MongoHQ for data.

My application should be able to store image files that are downloaded from the user or dumped from other sites. I'm not looking for add-ons for image processing or the like, I just have to be able to store and maintain them. This is normal if I just refer to them from my Node application as a numeric identifier or the like.

Being a self-financed one-person project, I would like to do it as cheaply as possible (I don’t want to pay a lot of fees for add-ons) and prefer to store everything on Heroku for simplicity (although the latter is not a requirement, just a preference) . I know that I can store them in Mongo as binary, but I am looking for something more efficient and, hopefully, cheaper on a mega-storage.

+5
source share
2 answers

As far as I know, you have read permissions in the Heroku application folder. You cannot store anything there.
Maybe you should take a look at Amazon S3 , it works with Heroku, and you only pay for what you use.

+4
source

More articles:


All Articles