# Best Practices for Disk Space Management in Community w/ lots of Images

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [Novembre 27, 2017, 4:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-disk-space-management-in-community-w-lots-of-images/74858 "2017-11-27T04:44:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![keith1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/keith1/32/178982_2.png) [@keith1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/keith1)\
**Post date:** [Novembre 27, 2017, 4:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-disk-space-management-in-community-w-lots-of-images/74858/1 "2017-11-27T04:44:18Z")

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I’m running a very visual oriented community ([www.realtimevfx.com](http://www.realtimevfx.com)) and have watched my disk space creep up over the past year (obviously). I’m about to do some cleanup (per this discussion “[https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/83](https://meta.discourse.org/t/low-on-disk-space-cleaning-up-old-docker-containers/15792/83)”), but I wanted to start a general conversation to get people’s thoughts on the best way to approach this - If I can avoid it, I’d rather not have exponential disk space growth as the community grows.

Are there best practices / standards that I should implement regarding user uploads? Should I disable uploads entirely and have people only host through imgur, etc?

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