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Ok So I am getting a bit more spare time on my hands and want to start focusing on Photography again so took a trip down memory lane and compared photobucket with flickr vs just hosting images on my own domain.
But I really dont get flickrs Pricing
Free account you get 1 TB of space which is a huge amount
Yes you get adverts and less features like views but adverts can be blocked with adblock etc (no this is not me defeating the system etc but I live my life on the internet and use an adblock pretty much because every site has annoying popup ads.
Then they offer paid accounts $50 a year for ad free ok that is reasonable and I would be willing to pay it after all can write it off as a business expense even if it is for personal usage
But then their is the Doublr account which gives you 2 tbs of image storage but really who is paying $500 a year for that privilege anyone with common sense would just create a 2nd account and in all fairness I would love to meet someone who would have 2tbs of images that they wanted to share publicly.
Is their more perks to the $500 a year package other than views and statistics of your images.
I am asking because I have a series of dedicated servers which all come with 5 tbs of hard drive and I only use about 10 gbs on each 1 to run my gaming servers off and could quite easily use the back end of 1 for my own websites which I do and if I ever needed 30Tbs of storage for images etc then I can easily network the website to access all hard drives of my servers. And Trust me that space will never be needed by me but Looking at getting another server just for web hosting and reselling hosting to other people and having virtualisation for them.
But the reason I ask about flickr is because that is a photo sharing site if you start uploading good images you are more likely to get a bigger audience via the likes of Flickr than you are on your own website.
So who uses flickr do you think it is better to host maybe your best images their with a link back to your site and have seperate albums and galleries on there or do you think it is best to host all your images on flickr and embed the albums to your site. I am not to familiar with embedding their albums and what they look like on an external site.
Is Flickr really that good that you would pay $50 a month almost for the premium service or am I better off maybe using it for my best images and then redirecting back to my site. and then using the flickr hack to have 1 tb cloud storage for other files I would like saving on a cloud lol.
But I really dont get flickrs Pricing
Free account you get 1 TB of space which is a huge amount
Yes you get adverts and less features like views but adverts can be blocked with adblock etc (no this is not me defeating the system etc but I live my life on the internet and use an adblock pretty much because every site has annoying popup ads.
Then they offer paid accounts $50 a year for ad free ok that is reasonable and I would be willing to pay it after all can write it off as a business expense even if it is for personal usage
But then their is the Doublr account which gives you 2 tbs of image storage but really who is paying $500 a year for that privilege anyone with common sense would just create a 2nd account and in all fairness I would love to meet someone who would have 2tbs of images that they wanted to share publicly.
Is their more perks to the $500 a year package other than views and statistics of your images.
I am asking because I have a series of dedicated servers which all come with 5 tbs of hard drive and I only use about 10 gbs on each 1 to run my gaming servers off and could quite easily use the back end of 1 for my own websites which I do and if I ever needed 30Tbs of storage for images etc then I can easily network the website to access all hard drives of my servers. And Trust me that space will never be needed by me but Looking at getting another server just for web hosting and reselling hosting to other people and having virtualisation for them.
But the reason I ask about flickr is because that is a photo sharing site if you start uploading good images you are more likely to get a bigger audience via the likes of Flickr than you are on your own website.
So who uses flickr do you think it is better to host maybe your best images their with a link back to your site and have seperate albums and galleries on there or do you think it is best to host all your images on flickr and embed the albums to your site. I am not to familiar with embedding their albums and what they look like on an external site.
Is Flickr really that good that you would pay $50 a month almost for the premium service or am I better off maybe using it for my best images and then redirecting back to my site. and then using the flickr hack to have 1 tb cloud storage for other files I would like saving on a cloud lol.
