Posted by: azrul
on Jan 12, 2010
In case you haven't heard about it, let me announce it properly. JomSocial 1.6 will have a powerful, seamless support for Amazon S3 storage. For now, the support includes both videos and photos, where you can serve the files directly from Amazon's servers, bypassing your servers, thus reducing site load and bandwidth consumption.
When we started thinking about support for remote storage, there are a couple of ideas that we considered. For the technically inclined, providing a virtualized file system, where local file and remote file looks exactly the same, seems like a good idea. However, to ignore latency issues would be a huge mistake. Access to local files are FAST and accessing remote file is orders or magnitude slower. That is a fact.