images in database performance question

wxdqz

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I need a solution where many servers in a load balancing setup can access images in one place. I want to stay away from NFS because of the security holes it presents. I was going to use a MySQL database but I just recently read that using this method is a major performance destroyer.

Is this true that using MySQL to store millions of images will seriously hurt the performance (I was planning to use a dedicated MySQL server just to handling of images). If so are there other solutions that I should be considering that allows any of my load-balancing web servers to let my users store images for their web pages in one location so if while browsing the web and the load balancing bounces them to a different server that it will know where to find them?
 
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