Serve photos on my site from cloud storage?

sirs2k

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Aug 9, 2020
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Hey Gurus!

I need some advice please because my situation is a little unique.
I'm a wedding photographer and I want to make a section (portal) on my site for customers to view all their wedding photos and proof them.
We're talking about at least 3000+ for each wedding, there will be many weddings.

Now, obviously I can't store the photos on my web host so I was looking into alternatives and that's how I came across the liked of WP Offload Media plugin. The only problem is that it doesn't support many cloud services.

Do you know of others that would support other (cheaper) services, like mega.nz or any other you would recommend?
OR maybe you can think of a better solution for my mission?
 

frizzel

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To be honest, when you're not prepared to pay $5/month (or $60/year) for 250GB space (the cost at Digital Ocean), I think you're in the wrong business.

You might say that's not enough space, but for proofing you don't need to upload your pictures in the highest resolution, and I suppose these pictures will be removed, once the clients have selected the ones they want.

Also, at Digital Ocean it's very easy to upgrade to plans with more space.
 

maximx86

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Have a look here...

They support GD, OD, OFB, DropBox & Box... photos & videos...


You can use all the plugins at the same time on your website with multiple accounts... 5 Google Drives, 5 One Drives if necessary... different projects, mirrors or fail-over...

All the add-ons are available on babiato for you to test it...
 

sirs2k

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Aug 9, 2020
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Thanks guys!
Lots of helpful options here! Will be trying them out soon.
Looks like google photos might be another option with these plugins https://www.formget.com/google-photos-wordpress-plugins/
You can categorize by albums

@frizzel thank you, I had looked at digital ocean but the pricing was so confusing and I didn't know what I would pick. But there's still no harm in trying to save money here and there especially with the wedding industry being so hammered by Covid (especially here in Australia)
 

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