Title: Does it duplicate media?
Last modified: October 27, 2023

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# Does it duplicate media?

 *  Resolved [amagab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amagab/)
 * (@amagab)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-duplicate-media/)
 * I have a very media-heavy site. Does it duplicate all media when you generate
   the static site to a local folder? I’m just trying to figure out how much storage
   space I need on the server to accomplish this.

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 *  Plugin Author [patrickposner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickposner/)
 * (@patrickposner)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-duplicate-media/#post-17161305)
 * Hey [@amagab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amagab/),
 * thanks for reaching out!
 * It does duplicate the media.
 * You can also work with some CDN setups (cdn.mywebsite.com instead of mywebsite.
   com for image URLs), and Simply Static will not copy them (we only copy from 
   the same TLD).
 * Cheers,
   Patrick

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