So, got any good /g/-approved photobucket alternatives since

>post image on 4chan
>wait for thread to be archived
>????
>PROFIT!

postimages.org/ or imgur

>>61257249
Why would any company willingly do this? They've shot themselves in the fucking foot. IU should become a CEO because making good decisions can't be that fucking hard.

>>61257249
just use mixtape.moe

google drive

Isn't this only being done to people using Photobucket to host their images for their websites and shit?

Especially for commercial use, but even personal use, if you're hosting a website, don't use ANOTHER website's image hosting services and expect them to be cool with it.

So what did you use it for?

>>61258755
Thumbnails on my anime/hentai recommendation site.

>>61257249
>photobucket

Isn't it the current year? I honestly can't remember seeing anyone use photobucket since, ummmm ... 2010? Or something?

Do you use it to provide graphics for your Geocities web site?

I'd probably just use imgur dog

Simple/just werx

>>61258785
imagebam

>>61258785
>commercial hosting on a free image host

dumb ass

Same thing will happen if you move to Imgur.

Buy a 2TB hard drive or two and host them yourself.

>>61258785
why use this piece of shit instead of hosting the pics yourself
>>61258788
I see idiots on forums use it

Dropbox gives you 10GB total public traffic per day. That should be enough for a small site and low resolution jpegs.

Imgur would likely work better but that's its own sinking ship. Short of similar free options, you might have to bite the bullet with Amazon.

The one thing I've hated about the internet for so long is that every site treats bandwidth like it's a precious commodity. It's not fucking oil. There isn't a finite amount of it!

>>61259071
It is when you've hit your bandwidth limit.


If you have constant visitors 24/7 (like photo bucket) having more concurrent users means you need more bandwidth, to get more bandwidth requires infrastructure, servers and routers, etc.

Further, they're also paying monthly for the bandwidth connection, even if they aren't paying for every single bit of data that goes through the pipes, they're still paying for those pipes, and the least number of pipes they're paying for and still able to provide their service is what they're after, it's cheaper to only buy what you need.


tldr; on the scale for a site like photobucket there is 100% a reason they treat bandwidth like a precious commodity.

>>61259071
>bandwidth doesn't cost money

>>61259128
it doesn't

>>61259180
...yes it does

What you're talking about is traffic, which still does cost money (electricity has a cost moron).


Further, as the other poster said, on the scale of photobucket you're dealing with hundreds of terabytes of data spread across several servers, and dealing with thousands of concurrent users.

You can pretend bandwidth doesn't have a cost, but you're a fucking moron if you actually think that's true.

>>61257249
You could use Mediagoblin. I hate such services like Photobucket!

>>61258785
Absolute fucking retard.