Abstract:

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The kind of storage back-end chosen depends on a variety of things. First of all, the usage i.e. is a particular Plone instance used for a small group of users or will it be used by thousands of users. Also, what kind of storage to use depends heavily on the content types stored -- many small files might require other actions than few huge files. Apart from such obvious things requirements for scalability and high availability influence the decision which kind of storage should be chosen. Or, not to be forgotten, the amount of time and complexity of some Plone installation one is able to afford respectively able to handle might influence the choice for a storage back-end. Also, decisions might be made on the type of hardware or yet existing hard and software environment. Aside from those things just mentioned, there might be many more reasons to pick a particular storage back-end. This page will look into some of the most common cases and explain the "why and how" about it.