# What is a good free photo hosting site? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819 "2004-03-06T04:44:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/1 "2004-03-06T04:44:42Z")
I would like to link to photos I’ll be taking of the Iditarod start tomorrow, but the sites I can find either want your life history or require access codes/passwords to look at the photos. Anybody know of a good free site that isn’t a pain in the butt? ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/2 "2004-03-06T05:25:56Z")
I’m going to give this a bump because I’m looking for one also. bump ---
**Author:** ![Joools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@Joools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joools)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/3 "2004-03-06T07:25:09Z")
Two of my friends run photo gallery sites. I’ll take this opportunity to plug them. [http://www.shuttercity.com/](http://www.shuttercity.com/) [http://artsyfartsy.undef.com/](http://artsyfartsy.undef.com/) Shuttercity is larger, artsyfartsy focuses a little more on artistic photos. Both of them require nothing more than your name and e-mail address. Be gentle – both of them are run by nice guys who pay all the server and bandwidth fees out of their own pockets. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/4 "2004-03-06T08:10:54Z")
If you’re just looking for hosting to link from (for a blog or whatever) I just started using [www.photobucket.com](http://www.photobucket.com) today. So far I’m purty happy with it. I use [imagestation.com](http://imagestation.com) for photo albums I want to share directly with family without sending big fat e-mails. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/5 "2004-03-06T08:24:15Z")
Or maybe this one: [http://www.ballofdirt.com/](http://www.ballofdirt.com/) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/6 "2004-03-06T14:57:14Z")
[Yahoo! Photos](http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.src=ph&.done=http%3a//f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//welcome&.intl=us&.linkdone=http%3a//f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//welcome) works for me. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2004, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/7 "2004-03-06T15:13:39Z")
[Club Photo](http://www.clubphoto.com/) is what I use when I need to be able to link to the photo [WebShots](http://www.webshots.com/homepage.html) is OK for albums ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/8 "2004-03-07T00:50:54Z")
[http://www.freepichosting.com/](http://www.freepichosting.com/) It’s pretty basic, but you can work off line. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/9 "2004-03-07T01:01:13Z")
> [@Tortuga](#): > > If you’re just looking for hosting to link from (for a blog or whatever) I just started using [www.photobucket.com](http://www.photobucket.com) today. So far I’m purty happy with it. > I use [imagestation.com](http://imagestation.com) for photo albums I want to share directly with family without sending big fat e-mails. How good is it for volume? Can it cope with, say, 200 people in 10 minutes opening one picture? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/10 "2004-03-07T01:08:34Z")
[Just testing](http://img33.photobucket.com/albums/v98/lobley/silverdale_web.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/11 "2004-03-07T04:53:32Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > How good is it for volume? Can it cope with, say, 200 people in 10 minutes opening one picture? I don’t know, but you could e-mail the guy who runs it if you haven’t already. I dropped five bucks in his paypal bucket and apparently that donation bought me a lifting of bandwidth and disk space restrictions. I just link from a hobby blog, and don’t really expect it to ever get much traffic. I may be special and unique, but so are a shitload of other people. 🆒 re: your picture, is that a tree planted in a rowboat in the middle of a pond, and why? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-good-free-photo-hosting-site/232819/12 "2004-03-07T04:59:49Z")
> [@Tortuga](#): > > I don’t know, but you could e-mail the guy who runs it if you haven’t already. I dropped five bucks in his paypal bucket and apparently that donation bought me a lifting of bandwidth and disk space restrictions. I just link from a hobby blog, and don’t really expect it to ever get much traffic. I may be special and unique, but so are a shitload of other people. 🆒 > re: your picture, is that a tree planted in a rowboat in the middle of a pond, and why? You’re lucky I wasn’t drinking my tea as I was reading that! 😃 It looks that way. It’s actually an island in a boating ‘pond’ with some boats mingling near it. It was my favourite place in the whole world as a kid. Spent hours on it the first time.