Why You Should Use Photobucket

Posted on September 3, 2007
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Take a look at www.flex888.com, a blog on Rich Internet Applications with many reviews on Flex technologies. This blog is graphic rich, almost every post includes a screenshot of the the reviewed object.

What’s interesting is that, if you check the image location, you’ll see all images are from photobucket.com, rather than the blog host. Photobucket is a image hosting and sharing service where you can create a free account.

I asked the blog owner Moxie why he put all of the image on Photobucket, he explain the following advantages:

1. Save storage

For a image heavy site like his, the growth of image storage could be an issue sooner or later. Photobucket provide huge space that wouldn’t run out.

2. Save bandwidth

Many web hosting services give limited monthly transfer. Images are bandwidth eaters. By hosting images outside, you wouldn’t use out monthly bandwidth quota from your web hosting account.

3. Fast image load

Photobucket has much better server than that of most web hosting services, thus images are loaded much faster from photobucket site.

4. Easy image management

You put all images on one location, organized by folders if you have images from multiple websites.

5. Portability

Since you have all images hosted outside of your web. You don’t need to worry about them when you switch web hosting service.

Moxie suggested using Photobucket’s Pro service which costs $25 per year. It worth the money. You get 5GB of space, unlimited traffic, and direct FTP access.

Comments

One Response to “Why You Should Use Photobucket”

  1. Mike Schorn on September 4th, 2007 2:34 pm

    I agree that hosting images elsewhere can cause less of a hassle than having them with your own host. You save your own bandwidth for more important things. Photobucket is great for heavy eBay users as well since eBay charges per image after the first one is free. Lately, though, I find myself using Pixamo. They let me post my images elsewhere in various different sizes, and I like that I can post the tags that I have attached along with the photo. If I have more of the same type of photo, people can see the others on Pixamo by clicking on the tag I’ve posted with the photo on the external site. It was a nice change from Photobucket, made even easier because Pixamo imported all of the photos I already had in my Photobucket account, along with captions and titles.

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