Iterating. "Handheld" layouts in GIMP, writing YAML.

I've also been thinking lately about where to host all this media. I currently have DocPad set up to generate <img /> elements based on the Internet Archive, but I've also been writing the URLs for both Flickr and the Archive, in case I change my mind later.

I've done some load speed tests... Flickr/Yahoo is a big enough company to have a good, global CDN, and so their images load faster. I don't know if I can rely on them forever, though, as commercial tech groups have a way of discontinuing even popular platforms if they don't make money. Whereas the Internet Archive's whole mission is to make current and historic media universally accessible.

My self-hosted Zenphoto site, when cached through CloudFlare, is either nearly as good as Flickr or better, depending on which speed test you trust more, WebPageTest or Pingdom. Is that a good compromise, or is relying on CloudFlare no better than Flickr? I'm also not sure how self-hosted-but-cached-in-CF would affect bandwidth usage, which may be important if/when I upgrade to a virtual private server or collocation.