I have a question about "VB Image Host"

[Apos]

perhaps a dumb question but considering you can now buy a good quality HD in the 500 gig range for under $200 USD
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1172880157783
why do we only have 50 gigs?

Hard Drive Space! Pics that come off of current cameras run about 2-3MB, we would have run out of space long ago. We only have a 50GB drive....

i realize that the HD is not physically in your possession but...

[Don Tomas]

perhaps a dumb question but considering you can now buy a good quality HD in the 500 gig range for under $200 USD
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1172880157783
why do we only have 50 gigs? i realize that the HD is not physically in your possession but...

Hard drives like that don't go into servers. Hard Drives in servers are about $3-4 per GB not $0.40-0.50 per GB for home PCs. Also we don't own the server we rent it, so we would pay for an additional HD based on a rental price.

PS. I should have clarified we have 50GB for pics, the drive is actually 73GB total, but OS, database, etc. takes up the rest.

[Dick Dawson]

How about setting the max size of an uploaded pic be about 1MB? This will then force everyone to at least lower their camera resolution or use a program to resize the pics but will still keep the quality of the pic fairly intact. Of course, the Photobucket type service will always be there as well.

[Don Tomas]

How about setting the max size of an uploaded pic be about 1MB? This will then force everyone to at least lower their camera resolution or use a program to resize the pics but will still keep the quality of the pic fairly intact. Of course, the Photobucket type service will always be there as well.

We tried that and people complained, I guess you can never make everyone happy. Also 1MB is way to high, that's only 50,000 pics, for the record we have 57282 pics right now.

The simple way is to just upload unformatted/uncompressed pictures and let the server compress them, don't complain when you compress them and then upload them, double compression never works well.

As for Photobucket, yes they will always be there but your nude pics on there won't be.

[Dick Dawson]

As for Photobucket, yes they will always be there but your nude pics on there won't be.

I've found that ImageShack seems to be more lenient in terms of nude/semi nude pics. Only one person that I know of has ever had a problem with them.

[WSJ3]

Hard Drive Space! Pics that come off of current cameras run about 2-3MB, we would have run out of space long ago. We only have a 50GB drive....

What about a link to another site (photobucket isn't monger friendly) but there are other sites out there that are.

Image shack and the like will not delete the pictures of monger exploits.

Just offering my advice and experience as a person with years of IT experience.

I can understand the constraints of limited server space but there are other options that still are available to the ISOC community.

[LM]

I've found that ImageShack seems to be more lenient in terms of nude/semi nude pics. Only one person that I know of has ever had a problem with them.

Image Shack is pretty 'Chica" friendly, and use them alot...had a problem with them once about a year and a half ago.....all is OK since

[Don Tomas]

What about a link to another site (photobucket isn't monger friendly) but there are other sites out there that are.

Image shack and the like will not delete the pictures of monger exploits.

Just offering my advice and experience as a person with years of IT experience.

I can understand the constraints of limited server space but there are other options that still are available to the ISOC community.

Make a list for me since I have never gotten into uploading nude pics, I have mostly been on the receiving end.

Any others besides Image Shack that are nude friendly?

I will either make easy to access links or maybe even an interface to make it even easier for our users.