Just got this from photobucket... is that something special? (See below)
Who has a spam email adress and wants to create a PB account, pls PM me, I wanna win that Ipad 2. ;-) I never win anything, not even on BLF....sniff. :-(
Announcing Unlimited* Storage for your free account!
You're a Photobucket fanatic, and we'd like to thank you. You can now upload ALL your photos and up to 500 videos!
Tell your friends the good news and you could win a new iPad 2!
It's easy to enter: just post to your Facebook wall, Tweet or email your friends the news.
*Photobucket reserves the right to limit excessive use and the unlimited storage offer pertains to non-commercial use only.
My opinion about photobucket is not good as I see "photobucket advertisements" all the time in the form of "this image has been removed"... So I don't trust them with my pictures, at least those I want to be still available after a year.
They will do this if you go over your ten gigs a month bandwidth - I've used 21 gigs in three weeks - a bit over a year ago I gave them a fairly small amount of money for two years' worth of unlimited storage and bandwidth. It's $2.99 a month, $25 for one year or $40 for two years. For me it has been well worth the $40 which runs out next April. I didn't ever come close to 10 gigs a month until around a year ago. If you want to put up high-resolution pictures (which can cause problems for some users) you can eat a lot of bandwidth real fast. I upload all my pictures at 1600x1200. If people move their images, you'll get the "removed" thing - which is why I try to remember to set up the directories before i upload. I don't always remember but I can't move them once I've published a link to them.
I've found ImageShack to be rather less reliable though I do like its clickable thumbnails.
For a free account you get.. (This is copied and pasted from Photobucket's help)
Free accounts include:
Unlimited* storage for photos.
Up to 500 videos permitted with up to 10 minutes in length per video.
Maximum display size of photos is 2048x1536 pixels each.
Maximum file size permitted is 5MB per photo and 500MB per video.
*Photobucket reserves the right to limit excessive use and the unlimited storage offer pertains to non-commercial use only.
I've been on photobucket for years, never any issues. The reason you see that "Image Removed" is that either someone with a free account used excessive bandwidth, or they moved that image to a different folder so the link no longer works.