Pictures not hosted

[Justintime9]

ok, a week ago my pictures and signature was perfectly fine... but now every picture I've ever posted online using "www.webfixed.com" is gone, and replaced with a hyperlink saying "Image" that goes to webfixed.com what happened!??? some of the pics that are gone I don't even have on my comp anymore! I made alot of concept art and sketches... and now no one can see them! what the heek is happening and what do i do?

[Justintime9]

what the... aaaahhhhhhhhh! my Image hosting site is gone without a trace!!!!! almost as if it was never there :O

[andylegate]

I use Photobucket. http://www.photobucket.com

Some people don't like them as you can't upload images larger than 800 x 600 or they say it takes a while for your image to load (I haven't noticed).
But the thing is, it's free, there's not a low limit on how many images you can have there, I have a ton! And I've been using them since 2003 and they are still up and running. I've never had a image lost, and all my images are still there, even for posts I made back in 2004 on Uru Obsession!

You might want to switch.

[Nek'rahm]

I use imageshack for everything...

but that's just me

[Goofy]

heh seems its now just a forum using http://www.webfixed.com. might want to ask them what happened.

[Justintime9]

um... so if my Image hosting site just went out of existance, then what the heek will I do???? re-load all my 1000000 or so pics I posted using a new Image hosting site? it's really a shame, Webfixed was a really good image hosting site :'(

[Chacal]

There's only one viable solution. Get your own domain name, then park it at any good (not free) web hosting service.
Then you'll get reliability and plenty of space, you'll keep complete control over your site, you'll be able to switch hosters at will without losing all your links.

You get what you pay for.

[Lontahv]

Chacal, reliable website hosting can be free(you just have to jump through more hoops to upload files, not a big deal).

Also, I think that plan with the domain name thing would not work so, Justin I suggest you don't spend on a domain name. The reason why a domain name wouldn't work is that usually a domain name forms a kind of mask for an ip(you can google this if you don't know what it is, wiki has a good definition) but you can get the ip of a site so that it can have another domain attached it it.


Now, what a domain does is replaces the ip with something humanly readable/understandable/remember-able so if my site is like(bogus ip):
209.17.90.20
then you can think of me covering the ip with the domain and for this example I'm using a bogus domain
and the ip turns into:
somesite.com

say I have some directories on my site
the ip would go like this:
209.17.90.20/files/
and the domain would follow
somesite.com/files/

Here's a real example:
Photobucket's ip is: http://209.17.70.11 and it works when you put it into a web browser.

For photobucket when I want to set a image url for a forum I put in: "http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/ff238/Lontahv/somephoto.jpg"
now I could also put in:
"http://209.17.70.11/albums/ff238/Lontahv/somephoto.jpg"

see the "/albums/ff238/Lontahv/" that part would have to be exactly the same for all image hosting websites for Chacal's idea to work.
If you're interested in hearing more just ask.

Justin: I use google website hosting for all my web hosting needs--I find that it's better than photo-bucket or mediafire. All you need to do is sign up for a gmail account(pretty easy and you don't have to use it) and then go here: http://pages.google.com/ and then just upload "files" No need to make an actual website. You get 100mb of space--not that much but, if you're smart with compression of photos and files it'll take quite a bit of time to fill up. And if it does... just make another gmail account. Also if you have a gmail account it opens up many more google services such as google video uploading.


Note: if you didn't already know this gmail accounts are free and you don't have to give away that much info.

Mod note: I fixed your one tag.

BAD

[Chacal]

Until Google decides to pull the plug.

Get your own domain name and hosting.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.

[Lontahv]

Yeah, Chacal your right. But it's important to HOST your own files too.(sorry Chacal if this is what you were trying to explain before)
Here's some real figures about the cost:
http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/Hosting;jsessionid=A79612BB1E7C949241D8500C1B00B0ED.TC60b?__frame=_top&__lf=Static