Can Redis handle an image-heavy forum?

[aaron]

I'd like to enable users to upload csv, pdf, and png files. Probably a lot of them over time. Will a Redis database be able to handle this? (I'm planning to set this up with AWS.) Thanks!

[Bri]

Sure, but it's not storing the binary contents of the files in the database, they get saved in a folder in your NodeBB directory under /public/uploads

[psychobunny]

yup, attachments are saved to your local and not redis. looking forward to a plugin that uploads to a CDN

[finid]

@psychobunny

That will be awesome!

[aaron]

Oh! So redis just points to the files but they're stored separately and don't need to be stored in memory?

Any tips for setting this up on AWS? Thanks!

[miksago]

@aaron there's now a S3 plugin for NodeBB uploads, I developed it whilst working at Kano.

[aaron]

Sweet, thanks.