When you add images to your blog posts, where do you upload them? Do you store them on an image host like TinyPic.com, or do you prefer to keep them on your own server somewhere?

There are advantages to both methods, and of course, disadvantages.

As of this writing, I put most of my images on TinyPic, though I’ve lately been a little worried about that. What if TinyPic decides to delete them? What if something happens and they lose a bunch of data? I happens. It would be lot of work to re-upload images and edit all of my posts, but it would be “safer.” Though on the other hand, I’d be storing more files on my server, and transferring more bytes as well…

I’m still undecided, but what’s your preferred method?

Just upload, copy the url, and paste. TinyPic is my favorite image host. Run by the same people as Photobucket, TinyPic is much more instant than Photobucket. TinyPic’s servers handle their load nicely, never bogging down. Your hotlinked images load quickly. You can’t can’t get much better than TinyPic (unless you want to host your images on your own server…). I use TinyPic regularly (it’s great for posting images on forums).

Imageshack is the world’s most popular image host. Just use their form to upload an image, and you get the URL to the image for you’re hotlinking needs. Unfortunately, their servers are a little overused. Things can run a bit slowly at times.