Storing images in your sql database versus filesystem
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Many websites today rely on media be it images or videos. One reason is humans are visual creatures, they like seeing things versus reading long articles.
Images on websites can be divided into two different types: Images used in the website theme including logos, rounded corners, backgrounds …etc. and images used as content. Obviously, the ones discussed here are the content images. Images used in the website theme will be accessed frequently and almost with every page view, and usually they are very few and better managed by storing them in a directory.
