Advise on picture hosting

[michaelc]

I'm selling on Amazon and want a site to host my images. They need to be accessible by url and with a straightforward way of uploading the images. I recently tried rackspace but found it over complicated for my needs. Reckon I'll have about 3MB of images initially. Anyone got recommendations?

Cheers,

Michael

[John G]

want a site to host my images.

Would photobucket not be ideal for that?

[michaelc]

Thanks John G, yes, looks fine. Cheap too!

[Justin]

Will break this thread off and start a new one under the Websites section

[arko]

Photobucket is ideal. Has various uploading options and an image editor for adding text to images, resizing, colour blend etc ... I have used it for years. Only drawback of Photobucket is the length of the url... this is the url from one of my pics that hasnt even been added to an album................
http:/ /s197.beta.photobucket.com/user/myname/media/3388283a-f5c8-49fa-ae9c-5dbe11468cf2_zps1f538605.jpg.html - very long indeed!

[meldean]

get your self a cheap hosting with a free domain and host them yourself. Simple FTP program and your away..

[arko]

As meldean says... a cheap host would be an idea (and in my oppinion is better than a third party host).... plus something like Filezilla FTP client to upload the images. If you went along this line though, check that your host has some image manipulation/library software installed like TinyWebGallery (free) or coppermine (paid) and can run ImageMagik instead of just automatic resizing which is ideal when dealing with banner images, thumbnails and normal sized images.