Hi Community people, I need a clarification/idea on file storage. We have 2 customers for an application, one is using mendix cloud and other is on-prem(which may be not connected to internet) . Do I need to do anything specific to file storage? Mendix cloud automatically stores the files in S3, so no problem. But In on-prem, I think it will be stored in local file system, which may also not be a problem , i guess. Is there anything I need to do change the way of file storage ? Note: I dont need any external access to see the files or upload a new file, everything will be done inside the application. Thanks in advance!
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Rishi Sundar
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Hi Rishi,
We’ve faced a similar situation, There are no specific changes needed. The only thing you need to take care of on-premise is disk space. For example, if users keep uploading files (documents, images, PDFs), they’ll keep adding up in a folder. If the server disk is small (say 50 GB) and you don’t monitor, it can get full and the app may crash and unlike Mendix Cloud, you’ll also need to handle file backups yourself to avoid data loss in case of a server failure.