Using Transloadit for file uploading & processing on your website 02 November 2013 Cliff ASP.NET, General, .Net, Java, Ruby On Rails, PHP Over the years I have used a variety of custom solutions to resize images, encode video, etc. Transloadit provides a really nice cloud based solution that you can use with any technology stack. From rails, to php, to JavaScript, you can interface with their API to upload images and videos. They offer some easy to use plugins to help get you started https://transloadit.com/docs#jquery-plugin