Hugues on "Needing Extra Storage for Photos"

I have a wordpress website which has 20gb of storage in our hosting package. We have around 3000 users on this website. We also use BuddyPress system which we allow pictures to be uploaded. Not everyone knows how to make their pictures smaller and upload straight from the camera. In 1 1/2 years the website has been open we have already used 6gb of storage. There are other files which are downloaded also. Ugh.

Any suggestions for storage solutions?

Hey,

Do you use something like smush it to automatically optimise images when they're uploaded ? It might help a bit and also will reduce the file size of existing images: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

I think beyond that your only option will be to upgrade your hosting package for more storage, Siteground go-geek shared hosting offers 30Gb for instance, their cloud hosting goes up to 80gb

Cheers.
Hugues

Yes, I have just recently put on Smush It. We have been using WP Engine for several years now and can't complain about their service for the site since we have so many members using it. Shared hosting I'm afraid won't work with our situation.

Hey tammy1999,

Ask WP Engine support about LargeFS. It's basically a way to setup integration between your WP Engine install and an Amazon S3 bucket. This overall will be better for performance and give you unlimited storage. Amazon S3 comes with a small cost based on bandwidth.

Here is a support article on the topic:
https://wpengine.com/support/configuring-largefs-store-transfer-unlimited-data/

Hope that helps!

Thanks @ehoanshelt that's good to know. i will give WP Engine a go with my next project. Met them at WordCamp London this weekend and pretty impressed.
Cheers