Post by RebeccaMonkey on Apr 20, 2022 15:19:44 GMT -5
When it comes to hosting images on your petz sites, do you guys think it's better to host these images directly on your site host, or use an external host (like imgur, etc.)?
I imagine there are subjective and objective pros and cons to both things. Right now, I use neocities and host my pics on imgbb and imgbox. I've thought about hosting them directing on neocities/on my site and wanted to get opinions for people who have had websites and hosts longer than I have. Neocities is free to use which I love. I get 1gb of storage space for free or 50gb for $5 a month. My thoughts regarding moving all my pics from imgbb to neocities was:
Pros:
- if an external image site goes down, there go all my pics
--it'd be a pain to reupload them (though with imgbb links I can see what my images were called at least, the image url isn't just random letters and numbers)
- with neocities, everything is in one place and I can back all my pages AND images up
- I like the folder organization system a little better
- I like the folder organization system a little better
Cons:
- takes up space which isn't an issue with imgbb (I don't think there's a limit). With neocities I get 1gb for free
- if I pay for 50gb and decide to stop paying one day, I'll need to pay for hosting somewhere else or move all my pics back to imgbb (assuming I amassed more than 1gb of hosted images)
- basically the reverse of the pro: if neocities ever goes down I have to reupload everything. But at that point I'd probably just need to find a host and all my images should be backed up into a folder and nicely labeled if they were on neocities
And a pro/con:
- depending on what images I'm uploading, hosting the pics on neocities can be slower or faster. With petz crew pics, I already have them in a nicely labeled folder on my computer so those would be easy to host directly on neocities. With stamps, it's super super fast to upload them to imgbb and grab all the links at once. Right now my stamps aren't nicely labeled so renaming and organizing them to host on neocities would be a pain
So for people with websites, what do you guys prefer or think is the better idea in general? What do you personally do?