Latency being time to first byte downloaded I’d still store this in cloud somewhere so that the really “hot” images/videos could be cached in a cloudfront CDN o

Latency being time to first byte downloaded I’d still store this in cloud somewhere so that the really “hot” images/videos could be cached in a cloudfront CDN or something. Also this is a startup, no? A million or so in storage so you need not preoccupy your startup with having to deal with failing disks, disk provisioning, collocation costs, etc. etc. not to mention the 11 9s of durability you get with S3, to me it just makes the most sense to do this on the cloud.