āAt this time, file URLs will be accessible at the old URL, but will default to the new URL appname.cdn.bubble.io/. Our team made this change as a security and reliability measure for the platform as the previous URL was at risk of being flagged by antivirus software. This should make the URLs more reliably accessible by users everywhere. For these reasons, weāre not able to revert to the previous behavior.ā
Thank god 99% of my customer-facing files are stored in Wasabiā¦ I will work to move the rest with this change if they canāt fix it. I would image they canāt use the domain because if we lose the domain then the file URL breaks maybe? I have no idea
There is a unavoidable cold start time (10 seconds maybe?) if no one has uploaded anything within a minute it seems, not too big of a deal for me thankfully. Not pluginās fault but Bubbleās server-side action cold start issue
His plugin lets you do a workflow-per file uploaded, and the uploader has a unique ID per file so I store each file like this: https://[bucketname].[region].wasabisys.com/storage/[uploader unique id]/[filename.ext]
So itās a huge storage folder but every file inside is nested in itās own unique folder so you can have duplicate file names and everything.
Cold start of 10 seconds is unacceptable for the UX case for us. We take huge pride in seamless user experienceā¦ and having to wait 10 seconds for each file uploads would sometimes leave customers confused or have bad perception of our app. May need to look into other plugin.
Yea itās not 10 seconds per file, itās the cold start for the server side action, if someone uploads a file then the next ones are all instant for like a minute. If people are always uploading then itās fast for everyone if that makes sense.
Yeah, same for Stripe.js, thereās a weird 10 second cold start that is really bad for all UX on bubbleā¦ thanks for the help. I hope Bubble stops damaging their reputationsā¦ at least provide transparency. @josh
I tried another Wasabi plugin where the entire S3 SDK was in the front end, there was no cold starts but what that means if your Wasabi API keys are all exposed in the browser console/logsā¦ unfortunately server-side ones are more secure but have the cold start. Itās not really a Bubble issue but a AWS Lambda one.
May I ask why you decided to go with external storage in the beginning and also how complex it is to set it up to be working seamless? Does the use of external storage via plugin provide seamelss integration to Bubble?
Before the recent pricing change Bubble storage is $1000/TB, Wasabi is $6/TB
It kind of depends, I just needed a box for users to drop large files then it is perfect. The problem is people have all these other plugins that can capture their webcams or whatever, but those are all uploading the Bubble S3 storage. So you would need a way to transfer a Bubble file to Wasabi after the fact, except Bubble has a limitation of like 22MB or something in the backendā¦
But the setup is actually quick if you read the docs and I can help with how I set mine up.
@redvivi Please correct me if Iām wrong on anything
Yep. Only the first file upload would experience this if the app is lightly used. In a multi-file-uploader setting, this wonāt impact the UX that much.
Lastly, you may have clever tricks to entertain the user to make it imperceptible.
The best is actually to test out the demo, so you may see by yourself: https://wasabiutilitiesdemo.bubbleapps.io/version-test
Besides exposing credentials in the front end, there is no other solutions to speed it up at the moment.
