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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sabconsulting wrote:
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.
The easiest solution for that is to buy a VPS from one of the major providers (I use Tektonic.net which is based in Texas), then either install one of the open source gallery suites or if you're savvy enough, just manually upload the pictures to it (Blogging services like Blogger and the Open Live Writer suite can also be configured to automatically upload).
My personal server runs about $25 a month (you can also pay on a yearly rate for a discount), and has enough power to drive a forum and gallery.
Other than renewing your domain subscription periodically, this is the only guaranteed way to really achieve stability, because if your hosting company is bought or sold, you can simply migrate to a new hosting company, and all your links will still work because you own the domain that they're going through.
