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Using google drive for storing images(Instead of the usual way ftp, blobs..) for a website with 10,000 users per day is it a good or bad way?

Considering API application requests per day and google free account with 15 GB space.

Shai Ben Shimol
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If you are seriously looking at serving images to anonymous users on a website, you should consider proper storage designed for this type of use case, such as Google Cloud Storage or AWS S3.

Google Drive is designed for "your content" and sharing between people you know. Using it for a general website will likely trip up automatic abuse filters at scale and will not lead to a good time.

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  • I have website wich users can upload files. every user can upload 20 picures per account, every picture take 43 kb. I thinkng, why pay money for storage if i can store the picures in google drive or dropbox and path them in mysql.. – Shai Ben Shimol Jul 09 '16 at 04:21
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    Because it isn't designed to be used in that manner, and as I mentioned, can result in things like abuse detection being triggered which would bring your site down. Serving 100K users via GCS would cost only $2/month in storage costs if they all did 20 x 43kb images. https://www.google.com/search?q=20+*+42kib+*+100000+*+%240.026%2Fgib – Dan McGrath Jul 09 '16 at 04:39
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You can use Google Photos which has Free unlimited uploads if the photos are smaller than 16 MP and there also might be a size restriction. More informations here.

Also, there is an API for Google Photos through Picasa API. More informations here

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