So, Photobucket, which hosts the images that I use on this blog, has changed its terms of service. They will now only offer Third Party Hosting (which allows me to post images here) with their highest level membership. Right now, I use their "Plus 20" plan, which is perfect for me - after seven years I am still using under 2% of my memory - and reasonable at $40/year.
But now they want me to upgrade to the "Plus 500" plan, which has 25 times more storage (which I will never use) at a cost of $400/year. That's right, they are charging ten times more, or all the images disappear from the blog. Thankfully, since I am on one of the "Plus" plans, my Third Party Hosting is grandfathered in until the end of my current subscription, several months away, so the blog is safe for now ( a lot of folks found out about this by waking up to find their websites ruined).
So, I am asking af anyone knows of any other image hosting sites out there that are more reasonable. I don't really want to have to re-post 2500 images, but I hate having to give in to Photobucket's ransomware, either, so i would be nice to have other options.
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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Deviantart is the only alternative website I can think of.
I use Hostpic --- It's fast and easy.
I just use the storage which comes Blogger, but that only works if you keep the maximum dimension of all pictures down to 2000 pixels or less.
I use Imgur and Postimage, but I don't know how many pix they allow, or what regulations might exist on dimensions.
So far, neither one has charged me anything.
No suggestions, just wanted to say that I share your frustration. This decision by PB affects thousands of post on hundreds of websites. Anybody from car buffs to gun nuts to film freaks to scale modelers to quilters to boaters. In other words, anybody who likes to take pictures of their "stuff" and share them with the like minded. You, at least, have the option, however arduous a task it might be, of going elsewhere, lock, stock, and barrel. But nothing can be done about all those historical "broken links".
Let me guess....the creators of Photobucket sold it to some corporate douchebags for a pretty penny, who will now jack up the fees 10x's to get back thier investment. This world sucks!!
Try Imgur.
https://postimages.org/
Ross, I use these and they are excellent, much better than photobucket!
:-)
P.S. I've already got hundreds and hundreds of FREE pix on there!
I second Postimage. As long as people access pages with the images on them, they stay there.
I'd like to keep the images on this blog if at all possible. I want to maintain all the links and the search label capability.
Unfortunately, a mate on another blog said he had lost all of his, so I don't know if you might need to reupload them or not? ( any experts know? ). I actually just save all my images on computer now and upload from there. It's so much easier than linking from an image hosting site!
You can set the galleries to stay as they are indefinitely, Mike, even if you don't visit them for a while, they are still there when you log in.
The only (slight) drawback is if you don't visit regularly, they log you out and their passwords are a pain ( I cut and paste mine! )
I like http://servimg.com/, except that it shortens files names. I'm not sure about the size limitations. Maybe you could try a combination of several hosting pages to see the pluses and minuses of each one?
I have used Flickr for hosting images on blogs for years. The good thing with Flickr, it’s not going away overnight as some of ”standard” imagehosts i used over the years. The free plan is really good, and the paid ones don’t burn holes in your pocket.
Addenum: The free plan has 1000GB storage (no restrictions on image dimensions nor downloaded traffic).
I just checked and it looks like you would be able to for $177 get 5 years of shared hosting and own the domain of braveandboldlost.com while having bluehost.com do both the domain registration and the wordpress shared hosting. That comes to $35.40 per year, but it's only if you sign up and pay for the discount offer and pay for it all at once and sign up for the domain name the same time you sign up for shared hosting, too. Might be what you're looking for. Might not.
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