[Answered ]-Serve media files with a static service. Dotcloud

The important thing to remember is that the static service and your django service on dotCloud are separate services, that have no common file system. So if you upload a file to your django service, it won’t be available to your static service.

For this use case I would recommend uploading your files to S3, and serving those files from there.

I would recommend Django-storages for this. Here is some documentation: http://django-storages.readthedocs.org/en/latest/backends/amazon-S3.html