Hi,
Just wondering for those that host files remotely, what service(s) do you use that are good?
I know I could register a domain and dump the files there but wondering if there is an easier solution such as one of amazon’s services or drop box etc.
Cheers
I guess it depends on the scale of the project. Dropbox public folder would be the easiest and fine if app is not super popular.
Amazon S3 would be pretty convenient as well. Then you could go for something like parse.com.
Hi,
thanks for the reply. I will take a look at amazon s3… I looked in to parse but you cant just store images in an http accessible location(as far as i know?). You have to upload the file individually and then access them using their PfFile object via their rest api.
I am working on an app that has categories of things you can purchase i.e. a new set of weapons. each weapon is going to have its own set of images, etc. I suppose I could store everything locally but this doesnt seem to be the best approach as some users may never purchase extra sets of things.
I’m not that familiar with Parse, sounds like a bit of a hassle.
Sounds like you would save yourself a bunch of work just to store them locally. Also nicer experience for users not having to wait for images to load. I guess it depends on the size what is the best thing to do…
Amazon S3 is nice and easy to use for something like that and nice and cheap as well.
On a side note I have just started using Parse with the parse module, it is brilliant and saving soooo much time as not having to develop the backend side of things.
On our side, we are using Amazon S3, cheap, fast and reliable.
@Jeremy - Yeah, I’m using parse too with develephant’s mod_parse module - its really easy… Im using this to store my user objects / facebook linked accounts, etc. It just doesn’t seem good for storing lots of general type files so i think I will go with amazon S3 for that aspect.
On a side note, have you seen develphants coronium server? you should check it out - I thinks its still in beta, but it’s starting to look awesome. I think eventually it will do everything that parse does plus a whole load more. It’s fully open source too. you just have to pay for the cloud server to host it. I would of considered using it but im working on my first app and didnt want to worry about the whole back end side of things too on top of learning all the mobile stuff 
@nmichaud - definitely sold on amazon S3 now
Thanks everyone
I guess it depends on the scale of the project. Dropbox public folder would be the easiest and fine if app is not super popular.
Amazon S3 would be pretty convenient as well. Then you could go for something like parse.com.
Hi,
thanks for the reply. I will take a look at amazon s3… I looked in to parse but you cant just store images in an http accessible location(as far as i know?). You have to upload the file individually and then access them using their PfFile object via their rest api.
I am working on an app that has categories of things you can purchase i.e. a new set of weapons. each weapon is going to have its own set of images, etc. I suppose I could store everything locally but this doesnt seem to be the best approach as some users may never purchase extra sets of things.
I’m not that familiar with Parse, sounds like a bit of a hassle.
Sounds like you would save yourself a bunch of work just to store them locally. Also nicer experience for users not having to wait for images to load. I guess it depends on the size what is the best thing to do…
Amazon S3 is nice and easy to use for something like that and nice and cheap as well.
On a side note I have just started using Parse with the parse module, it is brilliant and saving soooo much time as not having to develop the backend side of things.
On our side, we are using Amazon S3, cheap, fast and reliable.
@Jeremy - Yeah, I’m using parse too with develephant’s mod_parse module - its really easy… Im using this to store my user objects / facebook linked accounts, etc. It just doesn’t seem good for storing lots of general type files so i think I will go with amazon S3 for that aspect.
On a side note, have you seen develphants coronium server? you should check it out - I thinks its still in beta, but it’s starting to look awesome. I think eventually it will do everything that parse does plus a whole load more. It’s fully open source too. you just have to pay for the cloud server to host it. I would of considered using it but im working on my first app and didnt want to worry about the whole back end side of things too on top of learning all the mobile stuff
@nmichaud - definitely sold on amazon S3 now
Thanks everyone