Photo hosting services

At a time when access to fast Internet connections was a given, and Web hosting was far more expensive and inaccessible, storing a large number of files, especially photos, was the privilege of a small number of people.

Over time, with the development of the Internet, a large number of instant services appeared for everything and anything, including those that serve for the quick exchange of photos. Since then, and to this day, you can see a lot of photos in various forums and other places where many people gather, which are hosted on one of these services.

Although they fulfill their basic purpose, one of the biggest problems with this type of service is speed, but also the availability of older content because it often happens that files you uploaded a year or two ago no longer exist. All this calls into question the usefulness of such services in the long run, especially when there are far more serious and functional service like Dodaj.rs

What is the main criterion for selection? Ease of use, the absence of the need for any personalization, file size and of course – speed.


The importance of data preservation and sustainability

Since we touched on the topic of forums during our review of services, we must point out an important fact, which is that a large number of them use external hosting services for uploading photos. Some of them have the ability to directly connect to the service that becomes the primary hosting service. Photos are often uploaded by forum users to convenient services that deal with this activity. This issue is very important, primarily because of the sustainability and possibility of storing and backing up the photo archive, which can often be large, for as long as possible.

It happens that in posts that are only a year old, there are "holes" that occur due to the loss of photos on the original hosting, and the posts lose their meaning, aesthetics and most importantly - their functionality.

We will mention a typical example of temporary instability when, during the year, the domain of the last on the list of described services,expired, which directly resulted in the temporary inactivity of a huge number of links leading to photos on most forums in the country and the surrounding area.