Tag Archives: Image Hosting

Amazon S3 Pricing Explained

Apr 30, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Services and Tools 6 Comments

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon S3 is a service that allows you to host files of all kinds very cheaply. You can host images and podcast files to take the strain off the server that runs your website; you can hook into the API and use S3 to store data uploaded by users in a web app. You could even backup your personal files from your computer to S3. With a maximum individual file size of 5GB, it’s perfect for distributing an independent film or software.

One major point of confusion with S3 is pricing. How much does it cost, really?

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Chevereto: A Free Image Hosting Script

Mar 3, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Software & Scripts No Comments

Chevereto is an open-source image hosting script that could easily be used to create a service like ImageShack or TinyPic (providing you have a good server) or a smaller personal operation.

You can see a demo of the script here.

It looks pretty nice at a glance, and it could potentially be useful for a lot of people. If you hacked it a bit to require a logon to upload, it would make a nice personal image uploader for images you wish to hotlink somewhere else, such as forum signatures, photos in blog entries, etc.

I rather like the idea of a personal image host, though I don’t know what exactly I would do with one…

Poll: Image Host or wp-content/uploads?

Mar 28, 2008 by Matt | Posted in General 3 Comments

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?

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