A Decent Image Hosting Site

[Amber Fluid]

I know of photobucket and imageshack, tinypic etc... there are a whole heap of online image hosting sites. However, they all seem to want something to host a number of images.

I currently have accounts with a few sites but am finding my limits being met regularly and don't really want to pay for the upgrade and I don't really want to delete the images I already have there for room.

Does anyone know a site where quite a lot of images can be hosted free?

 

[QldKev]

What about your ISP, my ISP give 200mb free

QldKev

 

[DU99]

there's also webshots...

 

[hsb]

Flickr is the best I've found, but I subscribe, still a pretty good deal for 'free' uploading:
http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/#65

How many photos and videos can I upload for free?

When you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 2 videos and 300MB worth of photos each calendar month.

While the 300MB bandwidth limit for photos is firm, we do allow a little leeway for video in case you encounter transcoding errors, sound sync weirdness, etc. You will be able to delete and upload a new video. Please note, that if we determine you’re abusing your free video upload privileges, we may block your ability to share video.

Your upload limits are reset to zero at midnight in Pacific Time Zone (Flickr headquarters time) on the first of each calendar month. You can't recover any of your monthly allowance by deleting photos. If you have a free account, you'll see your limit on the upload page.

If you find yourself hitting your limit, try a pro account. Or, you can shoot your photos at a lower resolution or resize them to be more "web-friendly" (like 300KB instead of 5MB).

Flickr randomness:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=homebrew
http://www.flickr.com/photos/muddyrivermashers/5158533658/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwilkie/3726845367/
http://flic.kr/p/7VjfvK
http://flic.kr/p/8eQSoR

Your ISP isn't a bad tip either, mine (iiNet) gives 1GB free web storage. I'd rather pay Flickr $25 a year than bother with FTP/organising stuff on a Web Server but ymmv.

 

[Bribie G]

Photobucket is great, been using it for a couple of years and it seems to be just about bottomless - great for my recycled photos




With your high definition photos and the free version, they do compress them a tad, which I don't mind too much for Internet Usage. For example this photo is good enough to put up on forums (recently posted to SkyScraper City forum) .

However if you want to upgrade to pro, with unlimited everything and original photo storage it's only about $23 a year which I'll actually be doing when I can get round to it.

 

[mckenry]

I know of photobucket and imageshack, tinypic etc... there are a whole heap of online image hosting sites. However, they all seem to want something to host a number of images.

I currently have accounts with a few sites but am finding my limits being met regularly and don't really want to pay for the upgrade and I don't really want to delete the images I already have there for room.

Does anyone know a site where quite a lot of images can be hosted free?

I use picasa with gmail.

 

[Tim]

I have found that Imgur (http://imgur.com/) is a great simple solution for Web photos. It's not a full blown solution for storing and displaying but is good if you need to store and link to an image in a web page or forum.

 

[Andyd]

Zenfolio is one that's used pretty widely - $25 a year gets you 2GB, $50 gets you unlimitted, and if you're ever selling your photos there is a $100 option that allows you to set up a shop.

Pretty neat little site really.

Andy

 

[mfeighan]

iinet gives me 1gb, thats heaps

 

[Tim F]

might not be best for actually storing whole albums to share but for the odd pic to show friends or post on forums i've been using drop box. You get 1gb free, just save the image to the dropbox public folder on your pc and right click to get the url to share.

 

[Amber Fluid]

I'm sure my ISP will only allow 20MB which is no better than image shack. I'm with Bigpond

Flickr looks the best out of all the suggestions as it looks like they allow 300MB which is enough for now :icon_cheers:

Thanks for the suggestions