Self Hosting Sucks
At least when I do it…
Every since my hard drive died on my server and my site went down, I’ve been looking for alternatives to self hosting. Fact is, I’ve learned everything I set out to learn from running my own server and it’s a pain in the ass. This blog for example is now hosted on TextDrive – and I’m totally happy with their service.
However, I still had to find some place to put all my pictures. If y’all remember my “Shimmer” project, I had them all accessible from the web through my own self hosted portal. I really liked that. I had been thinking about Flickr and ShutterFly, and even using Amazon’s S3 through my own custom frontend.
I think for now I’m going to go with Flickr. Why?
h3.Good
- Great UI - as of today, some of the best AJAX stuff I’ve seen anywhere
- $24 / year
- unlimited storage
- even if you default on your account they don’t delete anything
h3.Bad
- They won’t store video – I store video that my camera takes along with my pictures
So even though they don’t have video, I think I want to go with them for photos. I’m gonna have to keep looking for a solution for my videos.
Here’s a link
May 16th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
For videos (I suppose you know well) one can go with http://www.youtube.com – up to 100MB limit which should be sufficient for video storage from a camera…
I hope youtube will stay alive after they run out of their VC money
best regards
Michal
May 16th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
You should try that one: http://www.photobucket.com/
May 16th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
I’ve been thinking about youtube myself. It’s got to be easy, since even tech-noobs on myspace use it.