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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JoeChiOhki wrote:
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).
VPS is probably overkill; simple web hosting is often cheaper. Domain name for $30/yr, web hosting for $10/mo., or less.
JoeChiOhki wrote:
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.
You should also be able to host images from your own home, via a properly configured NAS. Then it would only be the $30/yr for the domain name, and your monthly ISP costs, which you're already paying anyway. (You might be able to do without the domain name by relying on your NAS provider to give you a "free" account, but that puts you right back at same place as before by relying on someone else...) The only drawback with hosting the photos on your own equipment (provided you set it up safely) is you may not be able to provide 24/7/365 availability, but the photos would be available when your internet connection is up and your NAS is running.
I imagine that being able to configure your own photo hosting will become easier in the future as things like this PB debacle will inspire people to write apps to facilitate your own hosting.
P.S. That's why I own my own domain name, I am not at anyone else's mercy for a "free" account of any kind. But, it's not really something that just anybody has the skills to do...yet.
