Hey everyone --

I'm trying to come up with a solution to a situation that doesn't look like it has been covered yet. Basically, we have a whole development team working on an Umbraco project and there's a dev server that we deploy to (public facing) for client reviews. Additionally, we have a content server that we promote dev -> content on a semi-regular basis when we're ready to have our clients do content entry.

We have the site deployments basically automated, where we run MSDeploy after a successful build and all media are deployed. The problem is that media that our content editors are uploading aren't included in that build, which presents an interesting problem:

What's the best way to handle user uploaded content with Umbraco?

Also consider the scenario where Umbraco is on a load balanced server, and the user uploads an image to it. How does that image (the actual file itself) get published to the other instances in the load balancer?

I realize courier is out there, but it doesn't seem like a good option. Ultimately I'd like to see media files completely excluded from source control and deployed elsewhere. My current best solution right now involves manually syncing of the /media directory with robocopy or powershell or something, or possibly creating a git submodule out of /media and having some post build scripts update media assets before and after deployments.

Would be interested in any insight that you have had success with around this.