I have used the module Statcounter for many years for Drupal 5 - 7 and the Wordpress version to centrally monitor site guests and their activities on sites and get diverse statistics for multiple sites under a Statcounter account.
One of my clients is asking to store the files (Images, etc) instead of file system (sites/default/files).
What I need is to convince him that it's a very bad practice and I need your help as a reference why it's bad to store files in Mysql DB and why this is bad for Drupal and what is the impacts and customization needed to be done on Drupal to do so.
I'm setting up Drupal using Acquia Dev Desktop (on a mac) and when I get to 'Verify Requirements' it gives me this error message:
"PHP
5.5.38
Your PHP installation is too old. Drupal requires at least PHP 7.0.8. It is recommended to upgrade to PHP version 7.2 or higher for the best ongoing support. See PHP's version support documentation and the Drupal 8 PHP requirements handbook page for more information."