Depending on the importance of the photos, I’d probably just recommend Amazon S3 with their insane redundancy and 99.99999999999999999999 (give or take a few nines) integrity guarantee. It’s really quite cheap too.
Or for cheaper cheapskates, Google Drive will probably be around for foreseeable future. This is an excellent option at least for pictures that will be shared publicly on a site like BLF.
I personally use my dropbox account to host my pictures. More control as to when I choose to ‘pull the plug’ or have a copy if the hosting service dies (copy is replicated on pc/online).
A big plus… getting link is just a right click>get link away.
Example: My flashlight folder in my public folder. (contains other subfolders for other stuff)
I think you start with 2 or 5 GB space…I forgot. Should be more than enough to host your pics, get control of when you want to delete and get easy links
Seconded. They claim to never delete pics (unless you choose to do so), which has held true for me for ~3 years. Easy to upload/organize/edit/etc. And it's free. I don't anticipate it going away anytime soon.
Always make sure to maintain a frequently updated backup or two of your important images/files!
Maybe just a coincidence, but the pictures in all of HKJ’s reviews are not showing right now. Hopefully that will correct itself, I don’t think he uses ImageShack. What a catastrophe it would be if they were to go off line.
I’ve been on Flickr for nearly 10 years and I’ve never had a problem. Anytime I’ve ever posted an image here it’s been from there. Flickr is rock solid, I don’t know why they haven’t been mentioned yet. Maybe they have… I’m terrible at skimming sometime.
This was also the case with ImageShack. They’ve been there over 10 years now. Is this difficult for people to recognize?
That’s all really beside the point for the moment. Right now the focus is on trying to retrieve stuff from ImageShack if we can. I’ll add the link for “I Have Missing Or Broken Images” to the OP.
Moooo…
(sharing a pic from Google Photo. I’ve never used that until now, curious if this will work well. I have 15GB, and resize most of my pics down to 640x480 for posting; that should last a while. Might be a better option than just using Imgur. Some of the locations I work at block image sharing sites, so Photobucket, Imgur, and others don’t work. Google seems okay though!)
@Racer - Actually TLD isn’t the correct term. “.com” is a TLD and “apple.com” is a second level domain. Additionally, www.apple.com would be a subdomain of apple.com. What you’ve got is not a TLD. I agree that hosting on your own domain is a good idea for those who are capable. The process can be a bit unfriendly for some users though.