Have done both “local” (site host) and Cloudinary. With static sites in particular, a lot of it depends on your preferred site-building tool. The Hugo static site generator does a pretty impressive job of managing and processing images out of the box while, with most other SSGs, you’ll need to wrangle plugins and packages and you won’t get the same high performance. Thus, apart from Hugo sites, Cloudinary may end up being a better solution — although you’re right about its UI, and I’d say the same thing about its documentation. Even if you do use Hugo, it may be better to go with Cloudinary so you can avoid having to keep a lot of images in the site repo.
Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
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Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#22Some meta-commentary about some of the replies ... so far, there are 4+ replies suggesting the obvious step of storing in the images on the same web server host. But I notice the submitter is software engineer ex-Stripe, ex-Yelp, ex-Adobe... so I'm guessing he already knows that simple setup but doesn't locally host gifs & vids for technical reasons (bandwidth?, latency?).
Maybe recalibrate the suggestions based on the above. (Or the submitter can further clarify why hosting local image assets instead of using a CDN is not feasible in his particular case so the crowdsourced answers can be more productive to his goals.)
EDIT add: Sure, obvious technical answer may be applicable but some replies have a bit of condescension that doesn't seem appropriate and respectful of this person's tech background.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#23My site is generated by Jekyll and then I just sync to S3 and serve it all through CloudFront - works pretty well https://atomic14.com
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#24Scene7 or Cloudflare or AWS Cloudfront.
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#25>use GitHub repositories for hosting images
I don't know the current state of doing this, but it has been problematic in the past because they don't return the right content-type headers.
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#26Vultr object storage
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#27I guess I'm behind the times, but I just store them on the file system where I am serving the website from.
If one is worried about scale, it's pretty easy to throw them behind a CDN like Cloudflare or Bunny.net. They'll cache the static file for you so that your web server isn't always delivering it. I used to upload assets for apps to S3 to be served from there when I just started thinking that my CDN is going to be taking the vast majority of hits for static files so why should I be adding a step to my deploy process?
> If one is worried about scale, it's pretty easy to throw them behind a CDN...
But at that point, why don't you just put your entire site into a CDN?
I would think a landing page / blog would be mostly static?
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#28On the same server i have my website on. It's easy to implement and i don't have headaches due to GDPR. Performance is good, if it's properly optimized. I also add Hotwire Turbo if necessary.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#29I just commit them to the git lfs (in my case via netlify). Larger sites benefit from actual asset management systems though.
Re: Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?
#30You can go surprisingly far with a $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet and the Cloudflare free tier. Just host your website the boring way, put CF in front of it and they will cache and serve all of your static content for free.
This is a good workflow and pretty flexible. I would actually recommend NearlyFreeSpeech for hosting and BunnyCDN for caching etc.
Turns that $5/month to less than $3/month for low traffic sites.