If you have a localhost database and you don't want to sweat file permissions (webserver-writeable directory), the 25 - 35KB filesize is nothin'. Be sure to check the maximum TEXT/BLOB sizes at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Storage_requirements.html (12.5.3) If I'm not mistaken, a LONGTEXT column can store up to 4GB of data per record. chris.