Media Uploading In Elixir

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Hey Everyone!

Today i was trying to upload the media using waffle. It is storing in my DB without any hurdle. But its a REST API I don’t want to use the bucket option so is there any way to upload the media to somewhere else which is free of cost instead of saving in Local.

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Hey @Alia

Can you elaborate on this? Most cloud storage providers have a free tier which is going to be one of the more efficient ways to store files for free.

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@benwilson512 i wanna say that i need to build two rest API’s.
One to upload the media. and other to get that media. But how i can get that without storing into cloud ?
One way is to upload the files on S3 which is paid and its a bucket thing we need to create bucket for it.

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can you please share that clouds that are free to upload the images and also compatible with elixir ?

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AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Digital Ocean Spaces, CloudFlare R2, etc. These all have APIs, and you can call those APIs from Elixir either with a dedicated library or just a regular HTTP client. These all have a “free tier” which means that as long as you use less than X gigabytes, you won’t pay anything.

EDIT: Where is your service currently deployed, or where do you plan to deploy it?

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i didn’t deployed it yet. Planning to deploy it on Heroku.

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Heroku is pretty much almost dead already (they’ll be severely limiting or removing their free tier very soon) so I’d strongly recommend you stay away.

What @benwilson512 listed are all very good options. Consider one of them instead.

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