Photo Bucket alternative

Patrickknives

Patrickknives

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I have been using photo bucket for a couple of years but the advertising has become so big it takes forever to do anything, I only store pic for upload to the forum but would like to have a seperate storage that I can download from if something goes wrong with my computer, maybe a convienent album for customers to review, your thoughts.
 
I actually use Deviantart.com. Of course, there is everything from childish stick figures to awsome works of art. Just about anything that can be drawn, photographed, painted, hammered, shaped, cut, folded or whatnot is posted there. All I need to do to get a pic from there to here is copy the image link, (go to the images properties and copy the http: link) and paste it here with the "Insert Image" button. Plus, there are a number of blacksmiths and bladesmiths there to view your work and offer suggestions or help.
 
I have my own websites that cost about $10 per year, and have tons of storage. The added advantage is that the images never go away unless I want them to.
 
tryppyr said:
I have my own websites that cost about $10 per year, and have tons of storage. The added advantage is that the images never go away unless I want them to.
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Care to say who is hosting it? Never heard one that cheap. Maybe $10.00 Mo.
 
The way to do it is buy a domain name from Godaddy.com, and use the free hosting alternative they provide. It's advertising sponsored, but since I only use it as a place to store files, advertising is irrellevant... I never see it, and you never see it on the images I host. You'd only see the advertising if you tried to navigate to the home page... which doesn't exist, by the way.

- Greg

P.S. I just checked again... I actually do have a page set up... but it only has the wedding video we shot...

http://greg-davis.us
 
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I figured out how to block all advertising images.

In fact I am so used to it, I am shocked when using a public library computer.

I use Firefox and an add on called ad blocker plus.
It's free. If you need to kill an ad you see, right click and Adblock Plus: Block image...done you will never see it again.
 
Flickr is robust, supported, and compatible with just about anything out there. I use the free version and never have any problems with ads, downtime or usability.

The pay version is even better with a crazy amount of storage and features.
 
+1 for Firefox and Adblock Plus, no ads, no popups, and you can easily add a filter to block anything you don't want to see. Skipscreen is another cool free addon that will skip or automate common wait screens.
 
For picture hosting, I've lately been using www.Zooomr.com (note the three "o"'s) which is very similar to Flickr - with unlimited free storage.

(It's part of the Zoho group, whose word processing application has been receiving great reviews for the past few years.)


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I figured out how to block all advertising images.

In fact I am so used to it, I am shocked when using a public library computer.

I use Firefox and an add on called ad blocker plus.
It's free.
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safta said:
+1 for Firefox and Adblock Plus
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+2 on Ad Block Plus for Firefox.

There's also a free AdBlock for Google Chrome, another excellent browser.
 
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tryppyr said:
The way to do it is buy a domain name from Godaddy.com, and use the free hosting alternative they provide. It's advertising sponsored, but since I only use it as a place to store files, advertising is irrellevant... I never see it, and you never see it on the images I host. You'd only see the advertising if you tried to navigate to the home page... which doesn't exist, by the way.

- Greg

P.S. I just checked again... I actually do have a page set up... but it only has the wedding video we shot...

http://greg-davis.us
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Oh, OK Gotcha. I do have a site, so that's the difference. I hate ads and don't want people to see them.

Ken
 
I pay for hosting for and domains, about $40 a year in domains, $10 a month for unlimited everything (other than things like SSL and such, but I get some of that included). I use it for my own personal stuff, work stuff, friends, family....

One of the advantages of quality commercial hosting is that when there are issues they get resolved quickly and I'm not beholden to some company giving me something for free and relying on ads to support it.

I use hostgator.com and there are cheaper and more expensive options than the one I use, but I've had good success with them. They're a local company down south and provide both personal and commercial hosting, along with some high end data center services for businesses that want off site live backups. I've been with them about 5 years now without any issues, they've only improved. I do NOT get my domains through them, and don't particularly suggest the company I use. They go by the tag line of "Domains Priced Right" and while I haven't had issues they are also not the best priced and easiest to use. GoDaddy.com seems to have a good balance there, along with their extras. I can't say enough how much more useful having your own domain and hosting makes the net. I don't think twice about throwing something up for storage, setting up a photo site for a friend's party with its own unique address... All sorts of stuff that is quick and simple once you've got the accounts but you'd never do without it.
 
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