rayra
Expedition Leader
Flickr, IMGUR both seem to work fine, but only going forward wtih new images. Replacing all these older images will be a nightmare to reconstruct as Flickr, IMGUR both completely change your filenames into scrambled gibberish. So once I re-upload 1000+ vehicle-related images, I'd have to look at the original post, original image link, find the filename, find that fie on my own hard drive to look at the image and then scroll thur a 1000 images to find the same picture in the new host and then swap the links. Got a migraine just doing ~60 pictures in that model build topic.
I have to find a hosting method that will let me keep my existing file names - at the very least as a prefix - so I can readily find the images again. THinking about hanging a USB on my home router and putting it in the 'DMZ' so it's accessible read-only over the internet, but might have some ISP bandwidth / total usage issues. $135/yr I could create my own domain and site with unlimited bandwidth and storage space and do whatever the hell I want with it. Trying ot find another image host I can use. I'm also owner / admin of a discussion forum that already has unlimited bandwidth / storage, I could squirrel them there right away, short term. But relocating the image directory anywhere else would break things all over again. So I'm taking the time to figure a solution that I don't have to change yet again.
I've recouped the images from Photobucket and have been creating a duplicate directory structure of the hosted images. And even breaking down some into more defined categories. And when I find new space I hope to just plonk it all down there in one big move and then go re-sow all the new links. There's at least 1500++ images I need to replace, out of 14yrs / 3700 images. That's just to replace my own how-to / build topics all over the place.
I have to find a hosting method that will let me keep my existing file names - at the very least as a prefix - so I can readily find the images again. THinking about hanging a USB on my home router and putting it in the 'DMZ' so it's accessible read-only over the internet, but might have some ISP bandwidth / total usage issues. $135/yr I could create my own domain and site with unlimited bandwidth and storage space and do whatever the hell I want with it. Trying ot find another image host I can use. I'm also owner / admin of a discussion forum that already has unlimited bandwidth / storage, I could squirrel them there right away, short term. But relocating the image directory anywhere else would break things all over again. So I'm taking the time to figure a solution that I don't have to change yet again.
I've recouped the images from Photobucket and have been creating a duplicate directory structure of the hosted images. And even breaking down some into more defined categories. And when I find new space I hope to just plonk it all down there in one big move and then go re-sow all the new links. There's at least 1500++ images I need to replace, out of 14yrs / 3700 images. That's just to replace my own how-to / build topics all over the place.