Need suggestion for a cheap CDN for images

[dhananjay]

No. of images will be around 1 million. I think I need a CDN or a image hosting site:
Total Size of images: 1 TB.
Speed and local delivery : not very important
Cost: Very Low cost

These images, pdfs, svgs will be linked to a Item Code. The only reason to host them elsewhere would be to save cost.

[vrms]

@dhananjay

The only reason to host them elsewhere would be to save cost.

are you certain this is even possible?

[dhananjay]

@vrms you mean it will be more expensive to host pictures anywhere else ?

[vrms]

no, I mean whether it is technically possible to host pictures attached to ERPNext Documents anywhere else then the ERPNext instance itself.

[vrms]

@vrms

whether it is technically possible to host pictures attached to ERPNext Documents anywhere else then the ERPNext instance itself.

seems the answer to that is yes

[dhananjay]

btw, I am considering using amazon s3.

[tmatteson]

I have a handful of images I host on a CDN called cloudinary for my ERPNext based website. I have referecned the public URL (cloudinary.com/imageurlhash464651315513…) in my JS code. I don’t think this is a typical use case, but it’s in line with what you’re asking.

@vrms

no, I mean whether it is technically possible to host pictures attached to ERPNext Documents anywhere else then the ERPNext instance itself.

Yes absolutely possible.

@vrms

seems the answer to that is yes

What you are seeing here is to provide a link to download the image in question, where it will then be saved in the ERPNext mysite/files/ structure.

@dhananjay

btw, I am considering using amazon s3.

How many images (and of what size?) do you need served? What is the technical concern?

[vrms]

@tmatteson

I have a handful of images I host on a CDN called cloudinary for my ERPNext based website. I have referecned the public URL (cloudinary.com/imageurlhash464651315513 …) in my JS code. I don’t think this is a typical use case, but it’s in line with what you’re asking.

vrms:

no, I mean whether it is technically possible to host pictures attached to ERPNext Documents anywhere else then the ERPNext instance itself.

Yes absolutely possible.

As you mentioned ‘your JS Code’ it’s “absolutely possible” for self-hosted instances (with access to the code) then I guess?

[dhananjay]

No. of images will be around 1 million. I think I need a CDN or a image hosting site:
Total Size of images: 1 TB.
Speed and local delivery : not very important
Cost: Very Low cost

I do not need cropping or any other image service, the images just need to be fetched as is.

[tmatteson]

I think you’re on the right track with S3 or a similar service.

[smino]

came across Wasabi recently, the price looks right. S3-ish supposedly.

[tmatteson]

@dhananjay Follow up question: are these images being served to internal (ERP) users or to external (portal/ website) users, or both? I have used S3 in a similar-ish way and remotely serving images could be an effective way t o improve Frappe/ERPNext performance.

[dhananjay]

These are being served to both internal and portal users.

[dirkvdl16]

We’re using this with success: GitHub - zerodha/frappe-attachments-s3: A frappe app to upload file attachments in doctypes to s3.

[dhananjay]

@dirkvdl16 thanks for sharing, on Frappe Cloud, so using standard S3 cli