Thank you both for your thoughts, it has given me some idea the idea might be worth pursuing.
Best regards
Tony
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Google Drive API and CMS/online databases
Might be worth looking at the Dropbox API as well - https://www.dropbox.com/developers - especially given their 1TB storage for $99 / year.
FWIW we're doing an S3-based solution for a client at the moment.
They're using AdLib in house - we'll then be syncing their local image filestore with S3 and enabling public access to this. Then at the same time we're using our WordPress AdLib plugin to pull in collection item details and deliver these to the web.
This way the website will be delivered from the client domain / our hosting but the image assets for the collection will be coming from S3 - so kind of using it like a CDN. At the same time they'll get the usual backup / redundancy stuff that you get just from sticking stuff on AWS.
cheers
Mike
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Colin Baird wrote:
> Looks like it'd work.
>
> Google Drive offers a lot more than file upload and download though - it's a whole platform. So you'd have a situation where the integration might work OK for fetching files but file organisation, versioning, permissions and so on might hard to lock down the multiple places these can be controlled. It's a question of whether you want all the features or not - for just storage it seems over-kill. If you want to make use of the features then you've got to weigh the cost of developing and maintaining against the API to rolling your own. There's also the risk of not being able to recover all your assets easily if you need to.
>
> We did many integrations with google maps APIs over the years. They involved costly re-writes numerous times and sometimes licencing costs forced complete withdrawal to other map APIs like BING. They were incredibly good though, at the time, and the APIs are always nice and well supported.
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