Best online photo service that can store all your photos in folders? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: wilfred
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 04:21:24 am
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author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 04:49:33 am
content: I recommend you look for and watch a documentary call "Terms and Conditions May Apply." On at least one of the free services, once you loaded the photo into their folder, they have the right of ownership to sell it for use on advertisements. And since they may change the terms without notice, it may be advertisements today, center-fold tomorrow.In other words, if you upload a photo of your girlfriend wearing the new dress you just got for her birthday; some third party can purchase the right from the on-line storage service you are using, and use that photo in an advertisement. You wont know it, nor would you be compensated by its use. Imagine your buddy calling you and say - "hey, Julie looks pretty good on the third page of Pipping Hot Hackers Daily..."If you don't want to give up any rights of any of your own photos, the best online service is to put a server in your basement.

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 04:58:52 am
content: I've used pbase.com for 12 yrs or so. No ads, no spam, no muss, no fuss. They never use or "own" your photos.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 07:14:59 am
content: Domain : 10-12$ a year for a .com , .net etc seehttp://www.namecheap.comA good shared hosting : 3-5$ a month, or about 50$ a year. A shared hosting company i used and they're very good, but it costs more than average at 10$ a month:http://icdsoft.com/(there's a 6$ a month plan but you only have 1 GB of disk space, or you can choose their Equinix datacenter in Germany and then you have 10GB of disk space for about 8$ a month)Namecheap offers some shared hosting for 4$ a month (25 GB of disk space) but I haven't used their shared hosting, I only buy domains from them.Software for image gallery : free .. often included with the shared hosting , so you can simply "install" it from the control panel. ex :http://galleryproject.org/see demo here:http://www.carphotoshow.com/As many or few ads as you want (you can set them up and make money from ads if you care about that or you can simply leave it blank), you can also set up your own portofolio website, or a blog, and you can set up lots of email addresses if you want ( example contact @ your domain .com , or yourname @ domain ) and you have both webmail and pop3/imap (so you can get mails on your computer in Thunderbird or Outlook etc).It's worth the 10$ a month, better than paying about this much for a premium flicker or photobucket account, you have much more flexibility and control.edit: added mail to the list of benefits you would have.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 07:41:50 am
content: I've also gone for a domain and web hosting.Web hosting costs me $A4 per month for 10GB of storage. All the usual cPanel applications included.I mostly use the domain for email addresses but it's a handy store for images I want to appear in forums or for friends to download.You do have to remember not to reorganise the images too much or forum links will be broken.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 11:22:03 am
content: It's shared hosting, meaning there's a dedicated server which has lots of accounts on that server, so you're sharing the resources (cpu time and bandwidth) with other websites. That's why it's cheap.The cheaper shared hosting companies put lots of accounts on one server and each account will have several websites, so it's possible that at some peak times of the day your website will be slow because other websites on the same server will be very popular and use a lot of cpu time.The cheaper shared hosting accounts also attract people that are interested in hosting more dubious content (warez, their music collection, or various crap) and sometimes it's possible to have the server where your account is flooded so then your website will be down for minutes to hours.So the cheaper the cost, the higher the risk of your website being inconsistent, it will work but it may load slow for some people at some times of the day.That company I mentioned in my previous post ( icdsoft.com ) works around attracting bad customers by requiring payment in advance for one year (spammers and people with warez don't want to lose 100$ when their account is closed, honest people have 70 day money back if they're not happy), and by only allowing one website for each account (with several subdomains, for example you can have gallery.domain.com , blog.domain.com, mail.domain.com but not domain1.com , domain2.com), which prevents people from overloading that dedicated server's processors with hundreds of websites on each account.When I had a website with them, I did a reverse search and there were only about 1400 websites on the dedicated server my account was set on, and most of these were professional websites (doctors, artsy stuff like painters or pottery artists, small image galleries, personal blogs, so low traffic and virtually no problems).In contrast, hosting companies like Dreamhost for example put 3-5000 accounts on each server, each with multiple websites, so the performance varies.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2014, 03:03:30 pm
content: I was planning but never did use an outside hosting. Since I always have a print server running, I decided to expand my home server and use the dynamic name service that my domain name company provides as part of the annual registration fee.If it is an image I posted on the web, it is in the semi-public domain anyway so I use my google space for that. I have nothing else I want others to see at my cost, so I found that to be more economical for personal (& family) use to just have a home server + dynamic name service.The only trouble with my dynamic name service is that my firewall doesn't support that variation. My home server has to run an app to detect IP change and report in.