As I've said in a few talks, the best way to improve your systems is by first notdoing "dumb things". I don't mean you or your development staff is "dumb", it'seasy to overlook the implications of these types of decisions and not realize howbad they are for maintainability let alone scaling. As a consultant I see this stuffall of the time and I have yet to ever see it work out well for anyone.Images, files, and binary dataYour database supports BLOBs so it must be a good idea to shove your files in thereright? No it isn't! Hell it isn't even very convenient to use with many DB languagebindings...