Free Image Hosting?

[Jamesking56]

for people who want to host images or an images gallery but don't want full hosting

[kev woodman]

Flickr or photobucket maybe

[Jamesking56]

or maybe make your own photo hosting site

[kev woodman]

I suppose but you would have to have some fairly strong reasons for doing so when photo hosting sites aren't exactly rare.

[Administrator]

Income from such file / photo hosting business is quite low and the server cost is quite high. My friend pays $5k per month for a very high specification server and he hardly makes profit of $1000 - $2000 from his file - photo hosting website.

[kev woodman]

Yeah that was my thought reallly - a crowded market with some big established players and low margins.

[harry]

Please tell me how such(photo/image sharing) sites make money ? other then revenue from advertisement.

[walkerasindave]

I think you'll find that pretty much all their revenue is from advertising.

[Jamesking56]

Originally Posted by walkerasindave

I think you'll find that pretty much all their revenue is from advertising.

i agree yes

[billardent]

5k for a server is really a lot, that's a huge sum of money.

[Administrator]

Originally Posted by billardent

5k for a server is really a lot, that's a huge sum of money.

many people pay that amount for servers. All US and UK Government websites hosted with Rackspace pay that kind of amount per server. big forums need Quad Xeons with 16 - 32GB RAM and bigger drives so they pay such big amount for servers without any hitch.

[Jamesking56]

oh ok cool

[Kieran]

Originally Posted by Administrator

many people pay that amount for servers. All US and UK Government websites hosted with Rackspace pay that kind of amount per server. big forums need Quad Xeons with 16 - 32GB RAM and bigger drives so they pay such big amount for servers without any hitch.

Blades for the win.