[Yanel-dev] Amazon S3 [WAS:[Fwd: [magnolia-user] DMS with S3]]

[Michael Wechner]

simon litwan schrieb:
> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>> As pointed out in private conversation this requirement seems to pop 
>> up more often recently and I think it would
>> be nice if Yanel would support something like this.
> maybe we could implement an yarep-s3 implementation.

I could imagine that this would make sense in certain cases, but not 
sure if it makes sense in the case as described below.

Will investigate a bit

Cheers

Michi
>
> cheers
> simon
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Michi
>>
>> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Betreff:     [magnolia-user] DMS with S3
>> Datum:     Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:28:15 +0100
>> Von:     Joshua Portway <josh at stain.org>
>> Antwort an:     Magnolia User-List <user-list at magnolia-cms.com>
>> An:     Magnolia Users <user-list at magnolia.info>
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone tried to set up a system whereby the DMS uses Amazon S3 
>> to  store and serve files?
>> I have a site that currently uses Magnolia for managing most of it,  
>> but has quite a lot of movie content - the movie files are up to 
>> 600mb  in size, and need to stream smoothly, hence I currently use 
>> Amazon S3  storage + Cloudfront content delivery network. The 
>> solution works  pretty well, but the problem is that there's no way 
>> to manage the  movie files from within Magnolia, which makes 
>> uploading and changing  movies complex, time consuming and error prone.
>>
>> Is there any way to change the back end file system used by the DMS 
>> to  use S3 (or something similar)?
>> My idea would be that the DMS would keep metadata about files in the  
>> database, but actually store the files on S3 (perhaps with a local  
>> master copy too, just so that everything is in one place for  
>> migrations etc). When a file was requested it would return the S3 
>> URL  for the file so it would be served directly from Amazon through 
>> their  content delivery network.
>>
>> Josh
>>
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