Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] duplicate image files
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] duplicate image files

 *  [verysadpanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysadpanda/)
 * (@verysadpanda)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-duplicate-image-files/)
 * “W3 Total Cache does synchronize the images to the Amazon account that you specified
   in the CDN settings. My site uses Amazon Cloudfront and I haven’t had an issues
   with it. If you’re worried about storage space and not just bandwidth, you have
   to keep in mind that the images are being duplicated. They’re still uploaded 
   to your web server, but the images are displayed to users from the Amazon server(
   so the bandwidth part)”
 * is this true for those who use w3 total cache + wordpress + s3. my hosting/storage
   is very expensive and i would like to upload directly to amazon s3, but i dont
   like the idea that when i upload a picture, it gets uploaded to my hosting and
   s3.
    is there any way around this?

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 *  [haddow777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haddow777/)
 * (@haddow777)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-duplicate-image-files/#post-2793687)
 * I guess you could manually load the pictures to S3 and put links to them in your
   posts/pages instead up using media to insert them.
 * I’m not sure if it is possible to configure WP to use S3 as your media upload
   directory. If that would be possible, you could try that. Then you could try 
   and stop W3TC from caching the files, as they wouldn’t be being served from your
   hosting server anyways.
 * Does anyone else now how easy that is to do if at all possible?
 *  Thread Starter [verysadpanda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/verysadpanda/)
 * (@verysadpanda)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-duplicate-image-files/#post-2793767)
 * hi haddow!
 * the thing is, i need to use the media option to upload my photos since i need
   the photos inside the wordpress gallery to use one of my image gallery plugins.
 * that would be amazing if something that that exist
 *  [haddow777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haddow777/)
 * (@haddow777)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-duplicate-image-files/#post-2793868)
 * Hmmm. I’m not sure that W3TC is going to do what you want. In fact I’m not sure
   any plugin is going to. Here is a list of some quick options I found by searching“
   S3”.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-s3-photo-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-s3-photo-gallery/)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-s3-cloudfront/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-s3-cloudfront/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-s3/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-s3/)
 * Now, I’m pretty sure all of these will upload to your server and then to S3, 
   but I didn’t spend much time looking at them, so I could be wrong. You could 
   always use a non-WP gallery and manually enter the links to the images in you
   S3 bucket as well. More work, but then you also have more control.
 * Also, you might want to look at getting a different host. One that doesn’t charge
   so much.
 * Hope that helps.

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