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Client storage options

- [Narrator] Although some files can be handled through IndexedDB if you need support for large unstructured data, such as images, videos, and any other type of files, there are a few options. This is the type of storage sometimes referred to BLOb storage, or Binary Large Object storage. They are also often called the static files. Files that won't change over time, but still need to be hosted somewhere, such as images. At one point there was file system API's, and you might find it searching for solutions on the web. But just know, this is not supported across the board, and wouldn't be recommended. There are a few options, to handle your larger files, and we'll go through some of them in the next few videos. For example, you could leverage a CDN, or a Content Delivery Network, like Cloudflare, where you can host your files remotely for your website, or application. Many providers excel at this, such as Cloudflare, and needless to say, amazon aws, google cloud, and Microsoft Azure…

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