Robust Hosting for Your Images

Hosting Your Photos Yourself  or 3rd Party Image Hosting?

I have many sites, as I am entrepreneurial and very good in building blog sites and e-commerce sites. Some of my sites are very big and enjoy good deal of traffic, so I started looking for ways to save on my bandwidth and make sure my sites never suffer of being over-limits.

This can be achieved in 3 ways:

1. 3rd party free hosting for images, as these are greedy bandwidth consumers… Every time a visitor looks at a page the images on it cost you bandwidth equal to image/s total file size.
     
   I use PhotoBucket.com for hosting my images, slide-shows I create and videos on my various sites. Unless I use an image gallery WP plugin like I do on this site, I now use PhotoBucket.  
     
   It's a bit of a bother setting it all up at first, but then I can embed the code from my hosted images onto my site- and hey presto- free hosting!
     
   The downside is that you never know if for some reason they decide to wipe you off their records and then your site loses in one go all images! 
     
   But for short and heavy-traffic promotions it is not a bad idea, to avoid your server crashing from too much traffic, like after an email blast to your list, or JV partners doing the same…
     
2. Your own Hosting Account – For low or steady traffic sites/pages with few images I prefer  hosting my entire site including images myself here to make sure they stay in place and to have full control over links. By this I mean that images hosted by 3rd parties have links leading to their sites – even when this can be manipulated to an extent, like with PhotoBucket.  This could take your visitor away right when you want them to buy your stuff.
     
   As I have multiple sites and domains I pay for a resellers account so I can use one account for all sites, but this host also offers many types of accounts – at rock bottom prices, good reliability as far as uptime and usually better support than most other hosts I used previously. Naturally they offer the fantastic C-Panel and Fantastico, unlimited eMail accounts, FTP, SQL etc etc. Go Check it Out for Yourself…> 

   Another excellent option if you only have one site with many large images you want to showcase your visitors, or even if you want to build a photography portal for many photographers, is to get a hosting package which includes unlimited hosting space and bandwidth for very reasonable flat fee. This one is the top of the line and super stable uptime, along with FULL training to not only build (author) your site but to make your site a traffic glue and get to the top search engine results. They offer free easy site builder modules, KW research tools, SEO site optimization and so much more… You better simply see for yourself and  Compare SBI! with other Web hosts >> – Discover why building a successful Web business goes far beyond page design… and find out  why other successful Webmasters love SBI!
     

3. Using a 3rd party web 2.0 property to host your content and images – like for example HUBPAGES which is a great way to avoid hosting fees and building websites. The downside is they place their ads all over and you are less flexible with your images as far as their size and placement. Nonetheless, web 2.0 properties are an amazing tool for driving traffic to your sell-site/s. Learn how to use HubPages >>

 
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