I did the math, just to transcode 24/7 footage down to smaller files with coconut.co on one camera would be $648, with AWS elastic transcoding, that would be nearly double. Source: over 1 year ago

Having the server decide the image format based on the accept header is simpler. Services like https://imagekit.io/ (no affiliation) can do that for you. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Hosting wise, I would reccomend pythonanywhere.com, combined with either https://imagekit.io or https://cloudinary.com. Source: about 1 year ago

Use any third-party service to store images like Cloudinary , imagekit etc... And store image URLs in your database. If you have fewer images you keep image URLs directly in your APIs. Source: over 1 year ago

Imagekit.io – Image CDN with automatic optimization, real-time transformation, and storage that you can integrate with existing setup in minutes. Free plan includes up to 20GB bandwidth per month. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

We'll be using Multer to handle file uploads on our server and imagekit will do all our media heavy lifting. I chose these tools because I just found them easier to use and the latter has a very elaborate documentation (and a free tier too 😋). - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago