Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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This is very frustrating. I feel everyone's pain. I have had problems with hosting providers and people have suggested I use Photobucket on several occasions. I have been using Richard Branson's Virgin as a fibre cable provider for years now and it came with hosting. You couldn't really describe it as free because it was part of the expensive fibre-broadband and cable service I have been paying for. Then one day I got a letter saying they were moving out of the hosting business and sold hosting to a third party, and there was a deal where you could buy space at a discount off this new provider. Even if I wanted to pay AGAIN for I service I thought I was already paying for (and do not got a discount for not receiving) the URLs of my images would be different, and after a period of time you cannot edit your existing rv.net posts to re-point them to different URLs.
So it isn't just a case of not being able to rely upon a service if it is free - you can't rely on it even if you are paying for it, because it will likely get sold out from under you. You can probably only rely upon it if you own the service yourself.
Thankfully, I took PDFs of my trip and camper rebuild posts before losing these images, but that doesn't help anyone who wants to see them.
Actually, videos end up being easier, because they are all in one - I could reload one of my videos to another provider if Youtube stopped hosting them. The problem is that the photos on our posts are hosted separately from the text and the combination cannot be easily ported to another forum.
Cheers,
Steve.
So it isn't just a case of not being able to rely upon a service if it is free - you can't rely on it even if you are paying for it, because it will likely get sold out from under you. You can probably only rely upon it if you own the service yourself.
Thankfully, I took PDFs of my trip and camper rebuild posts before losing these images, but that doesn't help anyone who wants to see them.
Actually, videos end up being easier, because they are all in one - I could reload one of my videos to another provider if Youtube stopped hosting them. The problem is that the photos on our posts are hosted separately from the text and the combination cannot be easily ported to another forum.
Cheers,
Steve.
