Post by Traveller on Mar 23, 2006 3:55:32 GMT -5
A lot of us still use free web hosting services, many of which provide surprisingly good service. The downside is that very few of them allow one to use their web space for the remote serving of images. This makes sense, because their ads won't appear on a remotely served image, meaning that their resources would be used at their expense, without any contribution to their revenue stream, were they to allow their servers to be used in this way.
Understandable, but the source of a real problem for many who post to forums, because few forums provide space for image storage, for their users. The good news for some of us is that a number of free image hosting services have started up. The bad news is that at the vast majority of them, the fine print is a pain in the neck. Images that can't be remotely served, files being deleted after a month, and a number of other nasty surprises turn up, sometimes hidden deeply in the fine print.
In order to save some of you guys a lot of needless looking around, I'm recommending two services that have provided good service with a minimum of headaches:
1. PicsPlace.to
2. Imageshack.us
I hope you'll find them helpful, but as always, hold onto your own copy of anything you couldn't bear to lose. These places look like they're going to stick around, but I'm not in a position to guarantee that.
Understandable, but the source of a real problem for many who post to forums, because few forums provide space for image storage, for their users. The good news for some of us is that a number of free image hosting services have started up. The bad news is that at the vast majority of them, the fine print is a pain in the neck. Images that can't be remotely served, files being deleted after a month, and a number of other nasty surprises turn up, sometimes hidden deeply in the fine print.
In order to save some of you guys a lot of needless looking around, I'm recommending two services that have provided good service with a minimum of headaches:
1. PicsPlace.to
2. Imageshack.us
I hope you'll find them helpful, but as always, hold onto your own copy of anything you couldn't bear to lose. These places look like they're going to stick around, but I'm not in a position to guarantee that.
