What the Photobucket!!!!???
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That's the sad truth (well, maybe minus the cucked libtard part).
I pay a lot less per month for hosting of my own website, and I am yet to hit storage space limits. It is a little annoying to go through renewals with Network Solutions every year or so, but no big deal really.
I think the stupidity is on your part.
Per Peter's example, spread $39 per month over the years you were using it for free. In other words, $39 / 10 years = $3.90 per year.
Don't get your panties all bunched up because someone took away something they were giving you for free.
I love the quotes in that article that Paul linked....everyone bitching because they pulled the plug on a free service. You get what you pay for ladies.
Again, the only reason people used it was because it was free. $39 per month is ridiculous for people like me who use a whopping 25MB per month.
Obviously things change and business models need to as well. But don't be a cockjaw about it and hold thousands of threads hostage. Be a decent person/company and grandfather the stuff in.
If I didn't know better they are intentionally pricing themselves out of business.
Obviously things change and business models need to as well. But don't be a cockjaw about it and hold thousands of threads hostage. Be a decent person/company and grandfather the stuff in.
If I didn't know better they are intentionally pricing themselves out of business.
They can do whatever they want. Maybe they are intentionally closing their doors with their pricing game and a final fuck you to the freeloaders (the massive 3rd party hosting users). Normal people like most of us here who use it occasionally to host photos are caught in the crossfire. Nothing you can do about it...except bitch.
You keep bitching about an account that translates in something like 5 photos a month.
One Russian travel BBS I check into occasionally specifically lists the photo hosting sites the admins believe are stable in their policies and life expectancies.
The "cockjawness" is on the part of BBS hosts that would rather use third-party hosting instead of using their own servers and bandwidth, and (far more) on the part of users who stupidly believe there's anything free.
To be fair to Discoweb - you get far more than what you pay for, and if you value your photo content, you should use (read: pay for) more reliable content storage than "free" sites.
I would host them here on this server if the software made it easy to do so. I will look into making the preview thumbnails larger, but the image attachment feature of vBulletin still sucks ass.
Amazon S3 is cheap as dirt, super fast, and will always be around. Seriously, you could host a GB of photos for less than $0.03 (yeah, three cents) a month, plus minimal bandwidth fees. You might pay $1 a year for it.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Amazon S3 is cheap as dirt, super fast, and will always be around. Seriously, you could host a GB of photos for less than $0.03 (yeah, three cents) a month, plus minimal bandwidth fees. You might pay $1 a year for it.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Because you decided that all photos of any relevance you've ever posted weren't worth paying $39 for a month, then cancelling the account.
Dude, there's no rational explanation or excuse. You get exactly what you paid for.