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vBulletin FAQ Forums > Building and Managing Your vBulletin Community > General vBulletin Discussion > Avatars; filesystem vs database PDA Avatars; filesystem vs database WiBu 12-05-2005, 02:05 PM Just wondering what you're using and why. Do you think there are any huge benifits of either method? ChrisLM2001 12-05-2005, 07:39 PM For offsite hosting of images, it's a must! Furthermore, photos don't belong in the database. Wrong format/storage. It's an incredible burden, and one that's best to let Apache handle (as it's made to serve files -- databases are meant to store them, and it's a pain to extract data from it's tables. Especially nicely formatted ones with nice complex joins). Chris
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