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Re:Moving files from database to filesystem? - 2006/10/17 13:01
Is the problem the size of the files or the processing? The database overhead on size is not particularly large, especially if you actively manage your database.
The processing overhead is only significant if you are handling a lot of large downloads, in which case you may be better using the file system. If so, I'd try to make sure you have hosting that provides PHP-suexec of some kind.
It should be possible to get more disk space on shared servers - I'd try negotiating - look at other hosts if necessary. If you're really blowing the limits both for disk space and processing that are acceptable on a shared server, you will need to review the whole operation 
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