With my hosting solution I have 200 MB of webspace and a 10 MB database. I now run into storage shortage because I have to many pictures in the database and my web space is hardly used.

I would like to know how much work it would be to remove the image handlers so the files are stored in the file system instead of the database. To what should I pay special attention before changing the source code?

If I could move the images form the image gallery sections away from the database, that would mean a great solution.

Please advice me.

I have moved all the pictures we use to the file system and display them in articles and use full HTML.

Biggest problem I had was with the Web config files. The main web config that sets the handlers set jpg jpeg and gif and the second web config in my comunity1 only removed jpg and gif. I moved this web config to the comunity1/image dir and added a line for jpeg and all my pictures that are below or in the image directory view fine. Before this I would have pictures randomly not show.

here is a link to the articles that use file system pictures.

http://www.mhjcontherocks.com/Community/Trips/default.aspx

We ran into the same thing database was much more expensive then disk space.

Anyway it does work if you don't mind writing the HTML.