# How to store uploads with multiple web\_only servers?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-store-uploads-with-multiple-web-only-servers/168285
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [October 26, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-store-uploads-with-multiple-web-only-servers/168285 "2020-10-26T14:53:47Z")
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### Author: ![JanKanis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@JanKanis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JanKanis)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-store-uploads-with-multiple-web-only-servers/168285/1 "2020-10-26T14:53:47Z")

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What is the recommended way to store uploads when using a split data/web\_only containers setup with multiple webserver containers? It can be done using the S3 upload support, but in [Setting up file and image uploads to s3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229/24) it appears that S3 upload storage was not recommended some years ago (although that appears to have changed). So if I run multiple web\_only containers, how do I make sure they can all access the same upload files? I guess it can be done by storing the uploads on a shared NFS or other type of network mount / cluster filesystem. Is that supported? How does Meta do this (or do you just use S3)?

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-store-uploads-with-multiple-web-only-servers/168285/2 "2020-10-26T15:11:46Z")

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S3 support is pretty mature now, that topic is from six years ago and a lot has changed.

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### Author: ![JanKanis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@JanKanis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JanKanis)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-store-uploads-with-multiple-web-only-servers/168285/3 "2020-10-26T15:15:10Z")

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That’s good to hear, but I’d also like to know how well supported (or not) sharing a network drive between multiple web\_only containers is.

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-store-uploads-with-multiple-web-only-servers/168285/4 "2020-10-26T18:36:50Z")

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It _may_ work, but that is a lot less tested than using S3 ([or a clone](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-object-storage-for-uploads-s3-clones/148916))