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Whats up with all our pictures messing up. I notice older threads have lost their pics. Something about photobucket crappin out?? Can we save them in some fashion??

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Photobucket discontinued free third-party postings, so you now have to pay a monthly or yearly fee to have any Photobucket images show up on any third-party site, like this forum for example.
 

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Ya, photobucket really put the screws to a lot of people. Not just the pic owners, but to the readers who were relying on the photos as references to better understand the topics at hand.
 

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All who made use of PB (including myself) would have to re-up all particular photos to wherever they are/were to keep the said thread/pic alive using another webhoster such as Imgur or something similar....otherwise they are all lost (unless you want to start dishing out funds).
 

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I think this is going to be an ongoing issue for sites that require a webhoster to post images. A lot of websites allow posting photos directly from a computer. Is there a drawback to this type of photo posting other than getting a new computer?
 

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I think this is going to be an ongoing issue for sites that require a webhoster to post images. A lot of websites allow posting photos directly from a computer. Is there a drawback to this type of photo posting other than getting a new computer?
The ranger station would have to pay significantly more for storage and bandwidth. Unless everyone wants to pay a monthly charge to use the site, it's not feasible.
 

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Is there a drawback to this type of photo posting other than getting a new computer?
Don't quite follow you,

why would one need to replace their computer to post pics from the pc instead of using a service?
 

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I was thinking the PC would host the picture. I don't know how the system works but it sounds like the PC doesn't host it, it would be just transferred to the Ranger Station server and switching to a different computer would have no effect on losing the photo.

I know how to use a computer but still don't know the details of how it works.
 
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Got a buddy who just moved to texas who is working on getting a web hosting service goin ill give him a call see what i can do..if anything at all this is quite a bit of info thats been lost

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Photobucket discontinued free third-party postings, so you now have to pay a monthly or yearly fee to have any Photobucket images show up on any third-party site, like this forum for example.
To the tune of about $400/yr.

Flikr and imgur are popular alternatives. IMO as a recent convert so far Flikr is better than PB ever was.
 

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To the tune of about $400/yr.

Flikr and imgur are popular alternatives. IMO as a recent convert so far Flikr is better than PB ever was.
Yeah I've been using imgur for about 5 years now, no complaints save for their mobile app, which is utter garbage.


Got a buddy who just moved to texas who is working on getting a web hosting service goin ill give him a call see what i can do..if anything at all this is quite a bit of info thats been lost
Finding a new place to host the images isn't really a big deal. The issue is going back through the posts and updating the url to the new image.
 

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Finding a new place to host the images isn't really a big deal. The issue is going back through the posts and updating the url to the new image.
Right or wrong I just posted albums at the begining of my build thread with the approximate dates of when I was doing what.

I don't know if I will ever have time to update my 6yrs worth of 50+ pages of build thread and my 30 something page (IIRC) swap thread.
 

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I was thinking the PC would host the picture. I don't know how the system works but it sounds like the PC doesn't host it, it would be just transferred to the Ranger Station server and switching to a different computer would have no effect on losing the photo.

I know how to use a computer but still don't know the details of how it works.

I see,

one who wants to create their own web hosting service would have to create a domain name, register it with a clearing house thru a registrar, pay a fee to keep it running, default on your payments & say adios to the access to your hosted pics.:bawling:
 

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I see,

one who wants to create their own web hosting service would have to create a domain name, register it with a clearing house thru a registrar, pay a fee to keep it running, default on your payments & say adios to the access to your hosted pics.:bawling:
This is what I want to do. Thru reading various forums I think a low cost domain and website can be had thru AWS [Amazon Web Services]. They have a free tier and you pay for only the amount you use. So your pics would have to be accessed multiples of thousands to start adding up to more than a couple bucks a month. So far I've bought a domain, 5 years for $8.00. Now I need to host it, but I haven't had a lot of free time.

Any way, here is a link to a thread of Photobucket alternatives;

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=172923
 

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I mean if i had access to all these photos direct source id take time when i could to move em but honestly it would take forever...

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