Media is always deleted after deployment

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: 4.1.7
  • Operating System: “stack” (based on ubuntu) by heroku
  • Database: PostgreSQL
  • Node Version: 16.13.1
  • NPM Version: 8.1.2
  • Yarn Version: 1.22.18

Hello,
Every time after I make changes to the contenttype format in develope mode (locally) and push my changes to Heroku via git, the existing content posts have their stored media deleted. Although I still see the corresponding tiles and information in the Media Library, the files are no longer present and I only see an empty placeholder. What could be the reason for this?

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If I am not hugely mistaken - Heroku resets it’s file-storage on each cycle - you can not keep your media files there. That is why many devs keep their files on S3 buckets or systems like Cloudinary (there are tutorials for this).

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Thanks for the advice, im gonna try that!