Storing files (photos) in DB

[eluser]mattpointblank[/eluser]
Re-read Mirage's posts in that thread. He's spot on. My current project (which I inherited) started life storing all images in the database. It was an absolute nightmare extracting them all out and moving them into the filesystem and offered no benefits whatsoever. In fact, the site was slower (loads of database calls for basic stuff and the files won't cache in the browser), our database dumps were too big to backup daily and if we had to restore one it took forever.

Keep files in the filesystem. Honestly.