Title: Offloading media external server Last modified: July 30, 2020 --- # Offloading media external server * [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/) * (@abletec) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offloading-media-external-server/) * As some of yall know, 1 of the things I do is website hosting. I got a note from my data center the other day that 1 of my clients had too many files. My thought was perhaps to offload his media to an external server, but, thus far, I haven’t had much success setting that up. * Running WordPress 5.42, Lightspeed on the 1 server & Nginx on the other. Proposed media server is Ubuntu 20.04, the shared hosting is CLOUDLINUX 7.8. PHP is 7.2. * I have a subdomain working on the external server, but WP doesn’t seem to like a media library there, ie, I cannot, for example, add a file to the media library as it never appears. My directories are set to have the owner as www-data, & 0755 permissions for directories & 0644 for files. I did go into the all options screen & set the upload url path to the subdomain on the external server. * Has anyone ever set anything like this up? Conversely, any other ideas as to how to offload these files in order to make my data center happy? BTW, I can successfully ssh/sftp to the subdomain to upload files, I just can’t add them via media library. * Any suggestions very much appreciated. Please stay well & safe. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/) * (@corrinarusso) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offloading-media-external-server/#post-13192535) * Did you already try the CDN method ? * [https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media/](https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media/) [https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/) * Thread Starter [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/) * (@abletec) * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offloading-media-external-server/#post-13192642) * Thanks so much for your reply. I haven’t yet, corrinarusso. There is also a cost factor, which I’m trying to keep low for him. It is an option I’m considering, especially as regards Digitalocean spaces. But I’m reading mixed reviews on their open-source plugin, thus I’m a bit hesitant to proceed. He can do stuff in his control panel, but let’s just say his real area of expertise is not technology,& we’ll leave it at that. So I’m trying to find the simplest, least technical, lowest cost option out there. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Offloading media external server’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [external server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/external-server/) * [media library](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media-library/) * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [abletec](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abletec/) * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/offloading-media-external-server/#post-13192642) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics