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Asked: 2026-05-27T17:00:06+00:00

I am creating a mongodb/nodejs blogging system (similar to wordpress). I currently have the

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I am creating a mongodb/nodejs blogging system (similar to wordpress).

I currently have the images being saved on the disk and a pointer being placed in mongo. I was wondering since I have all sessions being stored in MongoDB to enable easy load balancing across servers, would storing the actual files in Mongo also be a smart idea for easy multiserver setups and/or performance gains.

If everything is stored in a DB, you can simply spawn more web servers and/or mongo replications to scale horizontally

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    MongoDB is a good option to store your files (I’m talking about GridFS), specially for the use case you described above.
    When you store files into MongoDB (GridFS, not documents), you get all the replication and sharding capability for free, which is awesome.

    If you have to spawn a new server and you have the files already into MongoDB, all you have to do is to enable replication (thus scale horizontally). I’m sure this can save you a lot of headaches.

    Resources:

    Is GridFS fast and reliable enough for production?
    http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/GridFS
    http://www.coffeepowered.net/2010/02/17/serving-files-out-of-gridfs/

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