dead sun's Journal: Flickr questions

Anybody have a Flickr pro account? Is it worth the $25 a year? Anything that will permanently store photos, let me set public/private, group them and host them for me available for free? I have some 3GB of photos now and need some effective storage and backup beyond a single machine with a cable modem I think.

you don't ask for much, do you? :)

[artifex2004]

Everywhere I've seen, you either pay up front, or they expect you to buy a certain amount of trinkets/prints in a period. And 3GB is still a lot of space, and more importantly, bandwidth.

The next company I work for, I'm going to try for colo privileges. Assuming it's an ISP or webhost, of course. I really need a stable email server for my vanity email domain. (I'd probably go ahead and subscribe to .mac immediately, if they allowed me to point my MX there. Or maybe a premium GMail offering.)

Re:you don't ask for much, do you? :)

[dead sun]

Haha, I generally try to stop just short of asking for the moon on a stick. Apart from getting my photos backed up some place, which will be a crushing effort, my bandwidth needs tend to average to be moderate, yet they're quite bursty. I'd like to keep the full resolution image around and just resize it on demand, like Flickr does, when posible. I know that isn't terribly difficult, gd with php will do it easy, and I was going to get around to it on my own site at some point.

I have my own machine which av

Oh, if it's really just for private use...

[artifex2004]

DVDs, then. One DVD, of the plain, single layer type you can buy in packs of 25 for under $10US, holds (allegedly) 4.5GB. You could burn several copies, and mail them to your brother, your mom, stick one in your safe deposit box, etc. Actually, they're cheap enough that you could also burn your "public set" off when good friends want to see them, too, and it's easier than the hassle of a website.

Re:Oh, if it's really just for private use...

[dead sun]

Yeah, private use mainly, though I'd like to be able to link to them for the sake of people downloading them. It's less likely now than a few years ago that I'll need a decent amount of bandwidth for simultaneous downloads, but it'd still be nice. I'm not suggesting that I'm going to put up a gallery of images and somehow get it on the /. frontpage though. :)

Still 3 GB is a lot to ask of some service without some sort of fee, so I'm somehow not surprised if there isn't anything out there. I do backup to a

not entirely sure

[Mantorp]

but I think Yahoo's "other" [yahoo.com] photo service is free and unlimited. Not sure if they compress your stuff though. PCMAG frequently reviews these kinds of services but I never remember the sites.

Re:not entirely sure

[dead sun]

Forgot about that one. Looked at it quick again and remembered why I didn't like it. There seems to be no way to get the full image back out of it. Ah well.