Today my Flickr home page met me with this:
Due to changes in your AT&T Internet Service, your Flickr Pro account will expire on 1st February, 2009. That’s in 55 days! You can renew Flickr Pro for just $24.95 for a one-year account. And to thank you for staying with us, we’ll give you another two months at no cost.
I haven’t had to pay for image hosting since I started paying for the DSL years ago (to clarify: I have never paid for image hosting). I use Flickr and Picasa Web Albums to host my images, Picasa mostly for personal photos and Flickr for whatever else I like to share including my blog pictures. I don’t extensively use tags or community features so that’s not important to me. Personally I prefer Picasa Web Albums since I use Picasa software to organize and edit photos on my laptop and it features convenient one-click uploading and synchronizing to the web . The only limitation is the storage size of 1GB of which I already used up 62% mostly because I currently use Flickr for the bulk of my images. It’s possible to upload from Picasa to Flickr but not as convenient, although still very simple. The only features that I will miss with a free account is a limit of 3 sets and inaccessibility of large images.
My question is: do you actually pay for image hosting? If yes, which one? If you pick “other” please let me know which one. In all honesty I will probably stay with free. I may try getting another Google account and another gig of storage with it, or use other free hosts as I see fit. My Flickr photos are not going anywhere either and I will probably still use it for blogging.
I will appreciate your suggestions.
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Don’t pay for hosting. Also check out Photobucket.com I don’t use it but I here good things.
I use Flickr also I have over 30 set of pics and over 1000 individual pics. I don’t pay a thing.
Most of my pics were migrated from the old Yahoo! photos. I don’t get that message when I sign in to flickr but I know I don’t have a pro account.
D, it was included for free if you have internet from ATT/SBC (and I am guessing you do). It’s over now.
I don’t pay for anything regarding blogging. I paid $5 a month for a voice comment line for a while as an experiment. Expirement is over, service cancelled.
I don’t care enough about blogging to pay for it. I’ll do it as long as it’s free. If it starts costing me money, I’m done.
Personally, i am using this free image hosting services, and I am very happy with the result , First, i had some small business to do in EBay , i tried two paid image service and the result was very bad due to the lack of support and script incapability . After wasting my money, i switched to some free image hosting and the result was good , personal i found that xtupload has a good support and a complete script which more than enough for my need , later a friend told me about PhotoBucket which was also great , but I hate to be limited in my usage (25 GB per month ) , in theory this more than enough but i preferred to stay with my old host .
Now I will recommend to any one those Hosts : 1 ) PhotoBucket (good bandwidth and high script capability ) 2) Xtupload (unlimited bandwidth disk space and good script capability) 3) image hack us for moderate use .
Do not waste your money , I will never pay anymore for any paid image hosting service (a was setting a waiting for a week in order to get reply from paid service , and almost instantly I got a reply from a free one pretty pathetic but this is the reality)
I have a Flickr Pro account that I pay for. I don’t mind the $25 a year considering I will never come close to the max bandwidth a month, and the unlimited number of sets you can create unlike with a non-Pro account. That being said, I use it mostly for family photos or whatever, not blogging.
Why don’t you just put the photos onto the webhost for your site?
My host is some beginner cheap-o account and I don’t want to pay for traffic, not that I am even close to even using a quarter of the bandwidth included. I think it’s mainly due to me not keeping any large files on it, I do host smaller files in my blog directory.
I use Image Event for my Jewelry Club (extensive photo sharing) and personal stuff. $24.95/year with a 1500 MB capacity. Quality wise it’s great. I don’t know how it would work for blogs, but here’s a link anyhow.
http://imageevent.com/packages.jsp
(1) sign up for googlepages. You already have a google account and it’s easy.
(2) This violates the terms of service, but a friend has about 10 different flickr accounts – by signing up for about 10 different yahoo mail accounts. But this is illegal and wrong and will make baby jesus sad.
I recommend getting a job at an ISP and putting up your own server in the data center. Works for me.
I messed around with that Xtupload battard mentioned and liked it, especially for Ebay. Can’t beat the price 1
I can’t get the poll to accept my answer, but I’ve paid for Flickr Pro for years and I like it a lot.
I am still old school where internet=free, although I have online subs for Consumer Reports (never use it and will cancel) and Cooks Illustrated (almost never use it).
I use Gallery 2 to host my personal/family photo gallery. you can install it yourself or have a look at http://www.pixi.me to give it a spin.