How to manage images in my website

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Dear Friends.

Now a days, I am developing a website in ASP.Net using SQL Server 2005. My Site, contains a lot of images. I can not decide that where should I store these images. Should I store them in SQL Database or any image hosting Site. As I have seen that so many websites store their images on image hosting sites (Like tinypic.com)
Please Guide me how should I handle these images. Which method would be better for my site. If I store these images to tinypic.com, then How I can Store and Retrieve dynamically.

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Posted 27-Jan-11 20:52pm

rashidfarooq

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Manas Bhardwaj · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-27T22:24:00

Well, you have to take a call. We can only suggest based on various situations.

If the images are user data (profile pic for eg), I would store it in database. Benefit is that, you might want to change the UI in future, create a supporting mobile App for it. In that case it becomes handy.

For the static images, I would store them in a folder within web application.

Personally, I dont like hosting my images to hosting site for couple of reasons:
1. I don't like my content to be present out of my bound.
2. I am not sure about the availibility.
3. many more...

**R. Giskard Reventlov** · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-27T22:09:00

Solution 1

If these are static images that rarely change then keep them in an Images folder within your solution.

Posted 27-Jan-11 22:09pm

R. Giskard Reventlov