# Users Uploading Files To An asset\_host

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/users-uploading-files-to-an-asset-host/187914>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 2, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/users-uploading-files-to-an-asset-host/187914 "2010-05-02T01:10:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaggotChild](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@MaggotChild](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/MaggotChild)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/users-uploading-files-to-an-asset-host/187914/1 "2010-05-02T01:10:35Z")

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I’m curious how people put static files uploaded by users to their  
asset host.

I’d think (for non S3, CloudFiles, etc…) that the files would be  
submitted to the app server which would save them to a shared drive on  
the asset host. I’ve head bad things about NFS and high volume sites.  
Is Samba is an acceptable alternative?

Putting part of the app on the asset host and submitting directly to  
it makes some sense, though it somewhat defeats the separation of app  
server, asset host, etc…

How are you guys handling this?