I’m involved with a website which has been growing for several years, and the amount of images on the server has built up to the point where we need to move them to external storage, and reference them on a separate domain eg [assets.domain.com](https://assets.domain.com)
I was wondering if any of you had been through the process and had any words of advice, encouragement, horror stories that you’d like to share. We’re looking at around 300Gb of images, one copy for a staging site, and one for production.
One question we haven’t resolved is the question of where to host the images. Backblaze, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi are all looking OK, but have heard some negative things about costs spiraling above the expected ten bucks a month. What can we expect here?
We’ve found the Offload media plugin, and it looks like that would not be suitable, as it would end up costing 1200 USD a year for the pro version, with the amount of images we have. This plugin looks to be what we need. Has anyone used it?
[https://github.com/humanmade/S3-Uploads](https://github.com/humanmade/S3-Uploads)
Happy to answer any questions if you need more info, and looking forward to hearing your experiences.
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I use that S3 plugin quite a bit. It’s fairly lightweight and easy to set up. It has some CLI commands to make importing pre-existing media into your AWS S3 bucket very easy as well. Never had any issues with it before.
However, I’ve never tested S3 with that many images so couldn’t tell you what sort of cost would be involved. There’s probably a calculator / some base pricing on AWS for you to work out a rough cost.