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Dave_Pete
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Jun 20, 2017

High Volume Picture Hosting - Transfer From PhotoBucket

I am a high volume picture poster to Open Roads. These are mainly in the form of my two vintage camper restoration projects, one in Truck Campers, and the other in Vintage Travel Trailers.

I have so many pictures linked, I am fearful of trying to upgrade to a preferred hosting site over PhotoBucket. And yet, recently I'm getting hassles from PhotoBucket about my posts being too popular (Look Who's Popular - Upgrade to Plus 500). Apparently, viewers of my posts have caused a bandwidth overuse that requires me to subscribe to an upgraded picture hosting.

Before I make such a decision, can anybody help me with information on a better hosting site?

I would like to get one that I can feel will be dependable in the future, not having the issues that so many complain about regarding Photobucket, and one that recognizes my chore and makes migration from PhotoBucket over to the new one, seamless - with all links intact.

Any suggestions?
  • Dave Pete wrote:
    ....makes migration from PhotoBucket over to the new one, seamless - with all links intact.

    Any suggestions?


    I could be wrong, but I see NO WAY your old PB links are going to work if your move your pictures to another provider. PB is certainly not going to forward your picture links to a new provider. Now you could just copy all of the same pictures to your new provider and use links to those in the future, leaving all of your pictures on PB like they were.

    I don't really see any reason to put hi-res pictures online for viewing online as 640x480 is generally good enough for online viewing. If you are putting hi-res pictures on PB that is one reason why you are using so much bandwidth when viewers view them. A 640x480 picture is only a few KB as a hi-res picture may consume several MB or 1,000 times as much.
  • Watching too. Photobucket is the worst. The site is barely usable because of all the ads.
  • Cloud Dancer wrote:
    I'm watching this one as I also have Photobucket issue/questions. Thanks
    x2
  • After PB lost ALL my images, I switched to Imgur. What a pleasant experience.
    It works very fast without all the pop-up ad's and they dont fill your inbox with SPAM.

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