Anyone use Fototime for photo hosting?
Looks like Fototime has been down for a week and may be gone for good.
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2oldman wrote:BradW wrote:How much?
Fototime was a paid site.
Does it really matter if the site is dead?
Most paid online storage will be setup in a "tier" arraignment, starting with the lowest data storage possible, data speed restrictions, simultaneous connections limits (amount of people that can connect at one time). Typically your going to see something like a max of 100GB storage for around $5-$10 per month with 5-10 simultaneous connections with hot link sharing URLs. The price goes up from there with more storage and less limitations.
Compare that to Google drive which comes with a GMail account, they give you 15GB of free online storage which is hot linkable shared and no connection limitations..
Need more, You can upgrade to a PAID account and get more online storage.. Not sure if the prices are current but a while ago, 100 GB was only $1.99 per month with Google drive and they had a max of 30TB you could upgrade to if you needed..
Best bet is to stick to the major "known" players, Google Drive, MS One Drive, Dropbox as those most likely are not going to pack it up and go out for lunch without you.. Although they too can decide to dump any service or feature they like in the future if they feel they are not making enough profit.
As for myself, yeah, I am not in any hurry to pay for an online service since the free Google Drive seems to work fine for me.. You can shrink/resize the photos down to fit a lot more on 15GB of space.. Additionally, there is no limit on Google accounts you can open, just setup another GMail email account and bam, 15 more GB of free space..
On edit, I should also note, that Google Drive, One drive and Dropbox are not limited to photos only, you can put pretty much any data file on those drives, PDFs, DOC files, spreadsheets, photos, Music or video files (your own copyrighted material)..
