Question about gaming pics...

[KirbyStar27]

I want to post some pics of my collection on the web. Anyone know of easy and relible sites to post pics?
-Thanks

[krbrunn]

Your ISP may offer free webspace for you, check that out, I use that for pictures and that works fine for me.

[KirbyStar27]

Your ISP may offer free webspace for you, check that out, I use that for pictures and that works fine for me.

Thanks, anyone have any backups? (just in case)

[Jasoco]

Well, if your signature is any indication, don't try to host them on your Hard Drive. Unless you're me, of course, and you have your HD set up as a web server. (Beats having to pay for web space. And it's fun to brag that your computer is your web site. Brag brag bragitty brag.)

I'd say try Yahoo!

I see lots of people here and at AtariAge do this.

www.yahoo.com
It's under Organize: Photos. Photos is bolded so it can't be hard to miss... or is that easy to miss? Uh.. whatever.

Did I brag.. I mean mention that my website is on my HD?

[KirbyStar27]

Well, if your signature is any indication, don't try to host them on your Hard Drive. Unless you're me, of course, and you have your HD set up as a web server. (Beats having to pay for web space. And it's fun to brag that your computer is your web site. Brag brag bragitty brag.)

I'd say try Yahoo!

I see lots of people here and at AtariAge do this.

www.yahoo.com
It's under Organize: Photos. Photos is bolded so it can't be hard to miss... or is that easy to miss? Uh.. whatever.

Did I brag.. I mean mention that my website is on my HD?

Thnks a bunch. Ya i know about the crap in my sig, but i dont really care. Plus it kinda looks cool!

[Jasoco]

Well, if your signature is any indication, don't try to host them on your Hard Drive. Unless you're me, of course, and you have your HD set up as a web server. (Beats having to pay for web space. And it's fun to brag that your computer is your web site. Brag brag bragitty brag.)

I'd say try Yahoo!

I see lots of people here and at AtariAge do this.

www.yahoo.com
It's under Organize: Photos. Photos is bolded so it can't be hard to miss... or is that easy to miss? Uh.. whatever.

Did I brag.. I mean mention that my website is on my HD?

Thnks a bunch. Ya i know about the crap in my sig, but i dont really care. Plus it kinda looks cool!

I know you think it's pretty cool. You told me the first time I made fun of it. :P

I can play too..

The Unix way:
/volumes/jasoco/files/sig/mariosig.gif

The Mac OS way:
jasoco:files:sig:mariosig.gif

[Sakara]

I'm trying out http://photobucket.com/ right now for my auctions and it works pretty well, they're specialised in picture hosting, and there is no limit on the number of pictures you can have for now.

[hydr0x]

try pixum.com or similar services

[gleavepaul]

How do u use ur hard disc as a server ?

[robotriot]

gleavepaul: you have to use a server software like apache. it turns a specified part of your harddrive into a http server for example. now everybody can connect to this server via your ip address. you can use services like no-ip which give you a unique hostname rather than an ip address which (usually) changes everytime you go online, thus making it hard for others to reach your server. making your pc a server isn't much use though normally, because you have to leave your computer online 24h/day and you need a huge upstream to make it fast enough for everyone.

[gamergary]

I use yahoo photos to keep my pictures online.

[punkoffgirl]

Also, do a search in Off Topic for web hosting or web space. There are a LOT of threads on it, I'm pretty certain.

[Flack]

How do u use ur hard disc as a server ?

This is really only a good idea if you're a tech head, or incredibly cheap. My personal website (http://welcome.to/theoharas) runs at my house off of a Windows 2000 server running IIS.

Like someone else mentioned, for people to hit your website means your computer must be on and must know the IP. Since almost all ISPs use DHCP, that means that if your machine is offline for more than the DHCP lease length time (24 hours, for me) then your IP will change, and people will no longer be able to hit your website. http://welcome.to is a free web forwarder that I use to get to my website. Cox (my ISP) has blocked incoming port 80, which is where websites run by default. My address now is http://68.12.156.214:533 ... not pretty, without a forwarder.

When you run your own website you will also learn why other people pay for web hosting. If you reboot your computer then someone won't be able to get to your site. If your computer crashes not only will you have downtime, but you might also lose your information.

It's also against most SLA's that your ISP sends you, so if they find out about it they can shut your account down, or more likely, try and upgrade you from a personal account to a business account.

[dave2236]

I use www.angelfire.com for hosting all my pics and my websites.

you get popups , but its also free.

plus alot of help for writing HTML and Java script.

[Spottedkitty]

I use Brinkster myself. I've got a few accounts with them and they've only just started adding ads to hte top of the page..most are quite un-intrusive though. Just click on the "Shared hosting" in the menu when you visit the site...they don't advertise the free one on hte front page anymore.

http://www.brinkster.com

[Jasoco]

How do u use ur hard disc as a server ?

This is really only a good idea if you're a tech head, or incredibly cheap. My personal website (http://welcome.to/theoharas) runs at my house off of a Windows 2000 server running IIS.

[Stuff]

In Mac OS X I just turned on "Personal Web Sharing", went to my Router set-up and set Port-Forwarding to my iMac's IP, then went to www.no-ip.com to have jasoco.no-ip.com to point to my home IP.

Easy as that.

Then I installed PHP. And since Apache was already installed, that didn't require any thought.

Then I got more complicated and customized the Apache Prefs file and pointed it to a separate Partition instead of the default folder. Also set up a buttload of aliases and redirects and blocked some naughty IP's and such. It's cool not having to upload.. even if I do have Cable.