suedenim Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 Hi, I have about 13gig of pictures I want to store online to share with family and friends as well as a backup. I would prefer a free service - I have a flickr account but I'm limited to 100mb upload a month. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 Usually I'd suggest Picasa or Flickr, but your size exceeds what you can do with both. Not sure what Facebook allows. A good alternative would be to set up a free hosted website some place, but even then you'll probably exceed the monthly bandwidth, unless you host it on your own system. Don't rely on photo sites to serve as your backup. They offer no guarantee. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 Photobucket has a Free account for 500MB storage and 10GB bandwidth. http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=29&ca...amp;topicID=320 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 It is very unlikely that you would find a hosting site that will be any good that will give you even 5 gigabytes of free storage. With that amount of pictures you're starting to delve into the realm of pay services, you'd be better off that way anyways imho. Not only would you have your pictures backed up securely (depending on which company you went with) but you'd be able to access them from anywhere yourself. Also a lot of services resize the photo for you when you upload, it takes longer to upload but there are two advantages that I can think of: You can cut that 13GB in half (or more) by ~halving the resolution of your pictures which even with todays increase in default monitor resolutions still offers decent sized pictures. The processing power needed to resize those pictures is done on their end and won't bg down your computer. What resolution are your pictures? You weren't really thinking of uploading full xMP photos were you? Thats a pet peeve of mine. I know a lot of websites auto resize to your browser but the whole photo has to be loaded first before the resized photo is shown. It especially irks me when I get an email from a family member containing multiple 6mp pictures. Thanks mom, I didn't really need a 2800x2100 (I forget what it actually is for 6MP) of my nephews face or of that interesting thing you saw the other day. 1280x1024 is probably the highest I would upload as and even then 99% of my family would never ask for anything higher and they probably wouldn't even care if it was 1024x768. But if it is backing up your pictures as well you may not want to resize them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigevil954 Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 (edited) if you have a hotmail account you can use sky drive, it gives you 25gb of space and i believe you can share pictures as an albu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_SkyDrive http://www.windowslive.com/Online/SkyDrive http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Photos enjoy p.s. as said before, dont really on this as a complete backup for your photos, better to keep them on a spare HD or dvds Edited September 21, 2009 by Bigevil954 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted September 21, 2009 Posted September 21, 2009 SkyDrive looks like the best option. No clue if there is a bandwidth cap or not, but it definitely meets your storage requirement. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suedenim Posted September 22, 2009 Posted September 22, 2009 I have them on my PC on two drives but I'm cheap and they're all second hand. I was sorting them out over the weekend and realised that 13gig is a lot. It also won't fit on one DVD and I don't trust DVDs, mainly due to two young kids. I'll look at SkyDrive and probably use that in conjunction with Flickr for the next 10yrs!!! Thanks for the advice its greatly appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suedenim Posted September 22, 2009 Posted September 22, 2009 Windows Live Photo gallery and SkyDrive. 25Gb and no bandwidth limitations so far. As I have an MS internet email account already it was just a case of sign in and a few clicks later I'm killing my upload speed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigevil954 Posted September 22, 2009 Posted September 22, 2009 lol glad its working for you , leave it uploading overnight. it took about 1 1/2 hrs to upload 1.2gb for when i did setup a friends account with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted October 28, 2009 Posted October 28, 2009 Agree with Skydrive, nothing free comes close to it's 25GB storage. If you use freeware client like Gladinet, uploading is greatly facilitated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCFreak Posted December 16, 2009 Posted December 16, 2009 Pay the $24.99 for a flickr account and be done with it. Know that your files are safe and very easy to manage. There is no other online storage place for photos that comes close to these guys. As a photographer I upload with confidence to flickr, and have for years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted December 16, 2009 Posted December 16, 2009 I have them on my PC on two drives but I'm cheap and they're all second hand. I was sorting them out over the weekend and realised that 13gig is a lot. Haha, 13GB is not a lot. My photo collection is somewhere in the vicinity of 70GB. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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