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Feature request: Amazon S3 support?
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Hi, is there a way to integrate Amazon S3 with fileupload?
Being able to host uploaded files on S3 would prevent from running into storage/bandwidth limit issues, especially on shared hosting plans.
I hope you'll consider this.
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Yes we need this too, to be able to deploy on paas without writable storage.
So what you want it to be able to upload a file to a cloud or data storage service using the Vanilla forum file upload plugin ?
Seems like a lot to ask from a simple plugin but ...Some people here are magicians so who knows... You could put a tinypic widget on your forum and have people upload there, I mean if the content is not valuable. But using an api from such service is the closest thing I think you are going to get.
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@vrijvlinder Thank you for your suggestion, but FileUpload plugin is so common, it is like a default plugin for Vanilla Forum - and my users using it comfortably.
Since this is about FileUpload suggestion, i suggest maybe we could configure the plugin to enable service like Amazon S3
Do you understand how the plugin works? Maybe you can change the Local Path to a Remote path if it were that simple. You could try it of course. But then there is the authentication issue. What you need is to make a plugin that uploads to where you want. And also can interface with the database to access the comments and discussions tables. Or at the very least gives you a url to paste the image into the post. Hence the tiny pic upload widget... I am not sure it a feature that is very much in demand although it would be a good idea to have an interface with other services like ubuntu etc.
Maybe someone else has some better ideas good luck in your quest![:) :)](https://open.vanillaforums.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/little/smile.png)
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Plugins are very powerful, actually, and they could easily handle this. Vanilla is surprisingly flexible.![:) :)](https://open.vanillaforums.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/little/smile.png)
To anyone interested, uploading to S3 would require a few steps:
It would definitely require some testing, but it would be interesting to see how it comes out.![:) :)](https://open.vanillaforums.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/little/smile.png)
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well ,looks like you have a new project !!![:) :)](https://open.vanillaforums.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/little/smile.png)
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LOL! My plate is already quite full, I would say. Between Badges (the one that I started implementing a few months ago), Rankings, Reactions and Backup, there's a lot of work to do!![:) :)](https://open.vanillaforums.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/little/smile.png)
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It seems Amazon S3 also offers hosting, maybe that or a VPS would be the answer for their bandwidth and storage concern.
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+1 for that. I reckon that they would like to use S3 only for the files to get the best of both worlds: cheap shared hosting for the main site (Amazon VPS are dearer) and cheap file storage using S3 (it's much cheaper than a whole VPS, especially considering that the latter doesn't include persistent storage, which has to be purchased separately).
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bottom line? mula, greenback, black gold ... blood bank or MIT education?
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Sorry, I dont' get this one. In my language, "mula" means something else, but it's NSFW and I don't think it's the same.![:) :)](https://open.vanillaforums.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/little/smile.png)
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@businessdad lol mula is, in this case number one on that list lmao #6 is news to me ...maybe that is what it means in your language ? if so triple lol
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mula
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I'm in the process of doing this, haven't had much success yet but if I get it working, I'll publish the plugin for everyone to use.