Avatars; filesystem vs database

[WiBu]

Just wondering what you're using and why. Do you think there are any huge benifits of either method?

[ChrisLM2001]

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