Better storage for supporting files

[jar398]

The 'roadmap' says "Revisit our storage of files uploaded during curation, so that is easier to deploy the curation app to a new server." I didn't see an issue for this, so am creating one now.

Currently the files are in a directory inside the deployed webapp directory, and backed up nightly to varela.csail.mit.edu.

One problem with the current arrangement is that it makes replicating the front end server impossible - each replica would have its own copy of the supporting data files.

One option might be to move these files into the phylesystem. Another would be s3.

Some data:

• There are currently 507 supporting files
• The largest is just under 10 Mbyte
• The total space used is 72 Mbyte

This issue might or might not be related to #111.

[mtholder]

also related to OpenTreeOfLife/phylesystem-api#158

[jar398]

also related: #126