How to upload files directly from Django admin to Amazon S3? Mitigating Heroku Application Error (timeout)

Question

I have an app on Heroku (the free plan) and regularly get Application Error on media files uploads from Django admin. I use S3 for serving static&media. What is the best way to upload files to S3 directly via django admin? Or maybe there is some other way to mitigate this problem (withot adding dynos)?

Answer 1

Try one of the following:

1. s3 direct.: With s3 direct the file would be uploaded directly to s3.
2. Increase Server Timeout You can increase your server timeout --- guessing you are using Gunicorn . Note that this could have repercussions, unfortunately I don't fully know what kind of repercussions