They say you get what you pay for...but what if you don't get what you pay for?!
I host all the photos on this blog at photobucket. Not that I love photobucket, but it's where I landed 8 years ago and now it would be a nightmare to switch over. A few years back I reached the maximum photos for the free account and started paying for the service - should've switched then. But I didn't, so now I have 8 years of photos sitting in my account and as of lately, photobucket has been anything but reliable. At least once a month for the past several months I've experienced at least 24 hours where I couldn't access the photos and a few times that my blog couldn't access the photos which meant none of my photos would show up.
Such is the case today. I can't upload photos. I can't create links for photos. So instead of getting a fun silhouette of Bennett feeding the horse - you get my complaint against photobucket. I keep telling myself I need to switch services but the work associated with it is daunting. So I live with it and every time the site is down, it moves up on my to-do list!
hey! do you have any suggestion? if you had to switch, what wold you use to store your pictures?
ReplyDeleteI had hard disks (2 ) and a back up of my computer...all got stolen. thiefes in the house.
so now I bought a new computer, I finally bought a new camera, ( 6 months later!) and I want to learn a reliable way to store pictures...
I'm little crazy with my photo storage because I fear losing photos to lost or corrupt hard drives. I store all my photos locally on my computer in lightroom. That computer is then backed up using back blaze online. At the end of the year, I burn a disc of the photos from that year. I don't want to lose my pictures and videos!!
DeleteThe online storage at photo bucket that I'm frustrated with only houses the low-resolution duplicates I create for the blog. Thank heavens because they are hardly reliable!
I would also love a suggestion of what you would switch to. I'm looking for an online storage for my pictures.
ReplyDeleteI'm little crazy with my photo storage because I fear losing photos to lost or corrupt hard drives. I store all my photos locally on my computer in lightroom. That computer is then backed up using back blaze online. At the end of the year, I burn a disc of the photos from that year. I don't want to lose my pictures and videos!!
DeleteThe online storage at photo bucket that I'm frustrated with only houses the low-resolution duplicates I create for the blog. Thank heavens because they are hardly reliable!