Store photos in another cloud storage to reduce operating cost

[vnugent]

What would you like to be able to do? Please describe.

I picked Sirv.com as the media management provider for rapid development of photo uploading feature. We're currently using the paid tier with 2 accounts (prod + staging/dev) and with extra bandwidth monthly costs have recently gone up to 49EUR/month (39 + 10 for the recent extra bandwidth).

Sirv.com

Pros:

• on-the-fly photo resizing

Cons:

• cost
• API features are limited

Amazon or Google Cloud storage

Pros:

• way less expensive
• more powerful APIs

Cons:

• Only serve original image. Need to roll our own resizer.

I think a cloud storage from GCloud or AWS would be a lot and allow us to scale. Several things we will have to do:

• Migrate photos to the new storage
• Change Sirv upload/searchAPI -> S3 API
• Create an on-the-fly image resizer (a serverless function)
• When we create a new tag, we will need to store image metadata in our backend. This will significantly simplify a lot of the current frontend logic where tag data and media metadata are in 2 different places.

How important is this to you (Please pick one)

• Important

I underestimated the amount of bandwidth incurred. We exceeded the 20GB/month transfer in Feb/March. We can't afford 50EUR/month.