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Akhil Naidu

I would suggest you go through the Post Installation Tips, which I tried to emphasis as much as possible.

In it the 4th point goes like this:

Before uploading any images, configure s3 bucket

Throughly go through the article once, and enjoy Foreming.

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techkoool

The thing is I can upload images without s3 (I think it stores images in VPS). The images were broken when I restart the app.

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Akhil Naidu • Edited

It is not that you cannot upload, you can upload. But t2d script is based on docker in background and which doesnot support persistant data out of the box.

In case of any reastart, all the previous data will be wiped out. This is the reason, I choose to make s3 as the image storage.

If you prefer to have persistant data storage between restarts or rebuids or updates, it would be in your interest to add s3. If you figure out another way of solving this issue => you can proceed with it. But the easiest and cost effective method is to attach s3.