Image hosting

[pne]

[Poll #673680]

Comments

[kake]

Answer to the last question: scp

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah! Should've put in a "something else, which I'll explain in comments" option on that one.

[uon.livejournal.com]

I use scp, indirectly:

the:jon ~ % which webjunk
webjunk () {
    chmod a+r -- $*
    scp $* jon@the.earth.li:public_html/junk/
    for i in $*
    do
        echo 'http://the.earth.li/~jon/junk/'$i
    done
}
the:jon ~ %

[earle.livejournal.com]

Snappy!

[spodlife]

scp for me too. ftp is so last century.

[karen2205]

Umm, for values of 'free' = no additional cost. I do pay for my web hosting, but there's no additional cost to putting images there.

[pleiades829.livejournal.com]

I used to host them all on our server (uploading via SFTP). Then last year, about this time, our ISP was bought out by another one, and the new ISP didn't give us the static IP address like they were supposed to; thus, for a long time, our server was inaccessible outside our intranet. I started uploading pictures to LiveJournal then. We got the server thing fixed after a couple of months, but I had just grown accustomed to putting them here.

What method(s) do you use to upload images to your image host?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

CVS over ssh, or sometimes scp (which I suspect usually uses sftp rather than rcp-style bodging these days).

[noidd.livejournal.com]

scp here too

[liv]

I said "it's free", but I really meant unlimited bandwidth. ScrapBook is a paid feature; that I happen to have bought a permanent account anyway so it's no extra cost is not an entirely sensible definition of free. The main reason why I use ScrapBook is because I just don't have to worry if a post suddenly gets popular (a post of mine is one of the top Google hits for Frienditto, and if that had had pictures in at the height of the controversy, I'd have been dead), or if someone decides to hotlink my image or I just happen to be doing a lot of transferring files around one month.

As a second choice I use my own webspace, which does have a bandwidth problem but on the other hand, I have total control over it and I get logs of who accesses the image, which can be interesting.

[asciident]

I picked FTP because it was closest to SCP :P

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

With me, it's a bit more complex than just one host:

Photobucket for "important" stuff (webinterface), tinypic when I don't really care if the image will still be there next month (webinterface), mitglied.lycos.de for whenever I think there might be a lot of bandwidth (FTP) (want to save photobucket's), and Flickr only for "good" images, certain theme, etc (webinterface).

[leora.livejournal.com]

I couldn't answer the last question because no option fit my situation. My home directory on my computer is linked into the server somehow, such that if I want a picture to be visible, I just move the file into my public_html directory and set the access to be readable by all.

I'm not the sysadmin, but I know we have our own domain and static IPs.

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

I use three different hosting places - Scrapbook for most things, but DeviantArt for artwork and my personal webspace for some random stuff. But most often, Scrapbook.