title: How can I handle user-uploaded photo files for a Rails app (using paperclip) on Heroku?
body: <p>So I'm making a Rails app which allows Users to create Items, and each Item has an image attachment, which is handled through the Paperclip gem. The Paperclip gem, by default, saves photos to the public folder, both in original (and thumbnail) form.</p>
  
  <p>I can see how this can get out of hand pretty fast in terms of storage space, given that photos can be fairly big.</p>
  
  <p>My questions:</p>
  
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    <p>1) How much space will Heroku allow me to hold for images in the public folder?</p>
    
    <p>2) If Heroku only allows you to hold a finite amount of data in this folder (which I'm sure it does), how can I handle photo storage for a site that will probably have a lot of images? Remotely perhaps? Compression? (Specifics would be nice, as I am completely new to image storage.) </p>
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