title: How to store image files in Django?
body: <p>What is the typical scenario of storing image files in Django? More specifically, are images stored directly in a database blob (e.g. MongoDB GridFS), on a local filesystem or Amazon S3? For all three cases are there tools or django packages available to simplify your life with storing images?</p>
  
  <p>I am currently saving images to and serving from the <strong>media</strong> folder in the Django project on a local development server. Someone told me it's a bad practice to serve static files on the same machine. So what's a typical real-world scenario of storing and serving static images in Django?</p>