What's up w/ Photobucket??

[Peleg]

Over the last week I've found Photobucket to be so slow to be essentially worthless. I'm using the free version so I'm not expecting miracles but this past week it's so slow that usually I can't even access it. Anyone else having this problem?

[cdifoto]

I have problems like that off and on but I don't care. I don't use it for anything important.

[ktixx]

Over the last week I've found Photobucket to be so slow to be essentially worthless. I'm using the free version so I'm not expecting miracles but this past week it's so slow that usually I can't even access it. Anyone else having this problem?

I haven't had problems like this, I always upload smaller photo's and use them just for online pics.
Ken

[Rhys]

I really don't see why people waste their time and money on photo hosting solutions.

If you're hoping somebody will miraculously find and buy your photos then forget it. They won't. You need to spend money on marketting in order to do that and then you're competing against the stock and microstock agencies.

If you want to display your photos for your friends to see then I don't see why a Geocities website with properly downsized photos won't work - it's free.

If you want to be in more control of your hosting then buy a webhosting package with a domain name. This should also give you email as well. It doesn't cost that much. For example, I pay about $50 per year for 500mb plus email plus domain names plus a few anciliary services.

[ktixx]

I really don't see why people waste their time and money on photo hosting solutions.

If you're hoping somebody will miraculously find and buy your photos then forget it. They won't. You need to spend money on marketting in order to do that and then you're competing against the stock and microstock agencies.

If you want to display your photos for your friends to see then I don't see why a Geocities website with properly downsized photos won't work - it's free.

If you want to be in more control of your hosting then buy a webhosting package with a domain name. This should also give you email as well. It doesn't cost that much. For example, I pay about $50 per year for 500mb plus email plus domain names plus a few anciliary services.

You don't pay for photobucket Rhys..it is free.

[Rhys]

You don't pay for photobucket Rhys..it is free.

There's no such thing as good stuff that's free. People complained it's slow and useless - sounds like something free to me.

[Peleg]

If you had paid a little more attention to my post you would have read that I use the free version, I wasn't expecting much as a result of it being free and it was only working this slowly this past week. That fact that it was a recent issue I was wondering if others had the problem which would make me think it was not poor service but problems w/ their server or some such thing.

And, no, I have no illlusions of selling any pictures.

[cjjones1714]

move to flickr its a much better service

[bascom]

There's no such thing as good stuff that's free. People complained it's slow and useless - sounds like something free to me.
Then why did you recommend geocities for free?

If you want to display your photos for your friends to see then I don't see why a Geocities website with properly downsized photos won't work - it's free.
I prefer free sites like photobucket and Yahoo because they store photos at full resolution.

[cdifoto]

Geocities has serious bandwidth limitations. 2 downloads of a full rez file and you're done for the month. heh.

Photobucket...ALSO FREE...is a lot better. All you have to do is be tolerant of the occasional down/slow times and deal with the ads. The fact that you don't have to pay for it makes it pretty easy to do so. You can pay for an account if you really can't stand those ads. I don't know if it's any faster through.

Oh yeah...and Geocities has ads too.

[JMBZ71]

For $25 a year, a Photobucket Pro Account gets you:

-Drag & drop uploads via an FTP client
-Flock Browser w/integrated Photo Uploader
-Photo Album customization
-5GB storage
-Up to 2MB filesize for photo uploads
-Unthrottled bandwidth for uploads

I've only had a Pro Account for a couple of months but I haven't experienced any upload problems. I just now timed an upload (using the Flock Uploader) of 8 photos at 800x600 resolution and the upload took 95 seconds. I don't know how that compares to other services but it meets my limited upload needs.

JMBZ71 :)

[gary_hendricks]

I personally really like Photo Bucket too. The $25 per year subscription price really is not bad at all for how good it is. I know that this is not the same as free but if you think about it Photo Bucket is only around $2 a month. I don’t think you can complain about that LOL