I am writing a very simple web based file/asset manager. I was initially thinking of simply creating a database with the info on each file and keeping the files in the filesystem. However, I have begun to wonder if having the files in a database would be faster(or slower). Has anybody had any experience with this sort of thing? Would large databases slow things down? Should I just keep stuff on the filesystem? I have had some issues on the DB with encoding types. I probably wouldn't want to base64 encode everything. ;) Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards Sven Schott