Yes, guys, we get it. S3 is nice.
Local storage is also nice. And if you already have your own server with plenty of space, it’s even nicer than S3 because you don’t incur additional costs.
We’ve recently struggled with this in our startup and have settled on using Cloudinary. It has a free plan that is not time-limited and is fully-feaatured: http://cloudinary.com/
awesome, i’ll keep that one in mind for the future!