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Originally Posted by Zachery

There are tons of safe ways to do this, however most of them seem to have a rather large amount of overhead that complicates the entire matter. Esp if someone just wants to store their attachments offsite to avoid "downtime" when moving hosts.

I have to agree with @Zachery here. You would know if you absolutely needed a setup like this. The guy that has a cheap host and does not have the storage for attachments, this is not a work-around. No money/time will be saved with this kind of an arrangement in the long-run. In most cases we conjure up these ideas and their complexities, but are they really needed? Who is going to handle the support when things go awry? The question is never can it be done.

I use a setup like this, since two or three high resolution images are usually attached to every post, and during the week we have around 500 posts per day with pictures. We unfortunately had to use this kind of setup, but I would not carry over the complexity we added -- and have to maintain -- to the other boards I run.