Video file - best practise

[Mat]

Hi there,

What's best practice for storing video and image files for
playback/display on the web? Should they be stored in a DB as binary
files (blobs) or on the file system? What do sites like Flickr and
Youtube do?

Thanks

Mat

 

[Guest]

Store them in your file system and store URLs in your DB. Storing them as
binary data within the DB will put a very heavy load on your DB server.