In Rackspace CloudFiles should I create a container for each user uploads?

Question

Just wanted to know that which one will be better: creating a different container for each user or creating only one container uploading everything related to users?

In the application part, I am going to need to list every file a user has that is why having different containers should be a good idea but on the other side, having thousands of different containers could be bad, not sure.

So, what do you think?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can do it either way. It would of course take a while to poll that many containers so I would reccomend having the 1 or two containers. The query speed will be superior this way.