Entries published on February 7, 2008
Media moves
As of sometime this weekend when the DNS change propagated, all static/media files for this site migrated over to Amazon’s S3 storage service; when I relaunched back in September, media was coming off a Joyent BingoDisk account. While a change in media serving technology really isn’t all that sexy or exciting compared to some aspects of web development (or as popular as writing about whatever Microsoft is doing today), I’d like to take a moment to talk about this move, why I decided to go with S3, and point out a few tricks which, hopefully, might be useful to you at some point.
Refresher: separate media servers are good
Officially, the Django documentation recommends that, in production deployment situations, you have one web server handling requests which will be processed by Django and another handling requests for “media”: static files like images, stylesheets, JavaScript, etc. This doesn’t mean you need to …