Hello CB, just wanted to bring this up again. This is a great idea/facility:
www.joomlapolis.com/forum/153-professional-member-support/229600-groupjive-images-stored-in-amazon-s3-is-it-possible#263644
Being able to specifify a path to e.g. amazon S3 would be super useful. I would use it for avatar uploading, canvass uploading for sure. At the moment I allow avatar upload, but disallowed it for canvass, instead having 5 basic custom made canvass's to select from, as all that uploading will mean I would have to expand my server storage in no time. But their logo/emblem is their logo/emblem so can't get around that.
My GJ groups don't hang around long and the data/info is deleted when a group is, so no particular worry there for my use case. Apart from fields, I guess CB Activity is the other memory/storage big user, but that can't be harnessed I imagine. So if GJ, avatar, canvass were stored in and pulled from e.g. amazon S3 our standard server capacity could be left to deal with the rest. Sounds like a scenario where all my troubles just flew out the window!
With such a facility a Joomla site with CB could be much more lean, these storage pricing plans can be pay as you use, websites would be faster, my clients could be allowed to upload instead of linking, we could charge for extra storage space options with CBSubs etc etc, the possibilities are endless!
What do you think?any ideas, feedback or intentions.