Hosting Files on VM remote server Vs Azure Blob Storage

Question

Hello
I am working on a social platform and I want to add a function where people can add images or videos and it will be shown to other users on the news feed page . we already having an azure vm remote server that hosts the website, so I was wondering what is the cheaper choice for such functions, is it better to add save the files on the remote server storage (it's still limited but we can expend the disk space), or to use azure blob storage.
I was told that using the blob storage will be expensive while the files will be loaded everytime a user logs in, and when I tried to read about the blob storage prices I couldn't really know what is the best option for price. so what do you think is the best for such cases?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi @Ziad Bathish ,

I think your disk space shouldn't be considered as file storage for your project.
If you started development process you can use internal disk space for this purpose, but when you are ready to go online I strongly recommend to use Azure Blob Storage for your images.
It shouldn't destroy your budget.
Please find more information about pricing on below calculator page:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?service=storage