Photo uploads

[perry_swanson]

I've seen several references to a problem with letting users upload photos. Apparently the issue is storage space -- if lots of users upload lots of photos it will cost my company a bunch of money. I guess. Can someone break this down for me?

I am a news reporter. I created a Caspio Web form that allows readers to report weather conditions where they are and to upload a photo of what's going outside their homes, etc. Then the reports and photos are immediately available for other readers to view.

The advice I've seen is to store photos on our own servers, but in this case that doesn't seem workable. I need this page to be basically self-maintaining. I can't be managing reader photo submissions throughout a day by grabbing them and transferring them to our own servers.

Can anyone offer some insights? Thanks.

[bahar_vm]

Hi,

The only think I can think of is to limit the file size for upload. You can setup a 1 MB limit in the DataPage wizard to prevent user from uploading big size photos.

Best,

Bahar M.

[AtayBalunbalunan]

For future reference, here's a documentation on setting a Maximum allowed size for file upload: https://howto.caspio.com/files-and-images/uploading-files-and-images/