Hello everybody, I have been working on a WordPress website about the history of the Royal Canadian Air Force since 2021. I have amassed a collection of currently just under 1500 historic pdf magazines on the site available for download. I have done this in multiple ways…
1. Google drive, I created a personal google drive to store these documents and made them available for download via shared links… this worked great. but had the following issues. My work filters google drive links and will not allow even access to specific download links. My google drive is now 200 GB and I risk exceeding this by the day and the cost for a personal drive that is in the 1 TB range makes me cringe. Not to mention this is a google drive….
2. Increased my hosting and uploaded the files to my hosting account using the wordpress download manager plugin. This worked… for a couple days until the 50+gb of files started to result in a clawback of my “unlimited” storage on my hosting account.
3. Amazon S3… It makes me nervous with the bandwidth charges for download and the price per GB of storage seems higher.
4. Cloudflare R2… cheaper and no bandwidth fees. So far where I am. Mostly.
5. Nextcloud on a local hosting trial… we will see.
The biggest problems are that every migration, trial…. results in hours of manual reconfiguration and I would love to see what other ideas are out there.
… what do you suggest?
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BunnyCDN Storage – combined with [https://mediacloud.press/](https://mediacloud.press/) so that your files still appear to be housed in the Media Library, but are actually stored in Bunny.
It sounds a lot like you are having a problem with storage. Basically, you want to find a storage location that is web accessible to serve files to the public. This is a common thing, and it’s also not generally free.
What is your budget for this project?
Edit: you also mentioned historical archives, have you considered asking archive.org to host them for you?