Photobucket initially courted me with a free picture-posting platform and now wants me to pay and if not will delete my history and library

That’s only been going on here for a couple of years…

Find a different outfit.

Andrew

Imgur works quite nicely for posting pix.

Mark

Andrew, I closed out of Photobucket and migrated everything to my hard drive some time ago.

I use Imgur as my online image hosting service now.

Much better but still free.

I find Post Image fits all my needs and is very easy to use.

That is Photobucket’s business model Andrew. Bring you in with free pic posting until you have a nice library of photos, then charge you later with the threat of losing all of your photos. Sneaky marketing, eh?

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Originally posted by Uncle Grinch:
I find Post Image fits all my needs and is very easy to use.

+1

I've been using Post Images for a few years now and it's pretty simple. A really nice article was posted on here a few years ago outlining how to post to the forum using it.

For long term storage I've switch away from all the things like the cloud, photo bucket, etc. I categorize photos in folders on my computer to be stored on my hard drive. I also then copy those folders to a separate external hard drive and store that in my gun safe just to make sure my photos are all well protected.

I have tried, just to see how they work, cloud based storage.

Very limiting, and extremely expensive for my needs.

I have literally millions of photos.

I have some years with almost 400,000 pictures!

Sometimes on an outing I have 8 cameras being used by guests.

My main media computer has 8 internal 24 TB hard drives.

Attached to it via Thunderbolt and USB 5 RAID-5 drives each with 72 TB.

And another one with 96 TB.

A Network drives each array has 96 TB too.

All the RAID drives are set as RAID 5.

This means my media is safe if a single drive gives up the ghost.

I have had only one drive do this in the past.

All I did was replace it with a new one and the system builds it back.

It takes several days, but works.

We are actually lucky today as formats are standard.

I remember spending months converting old videos to MP4.

In the past each compassed a different format.

From MPG to WMV and see others!