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stinkwheel |
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 15:58 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: Photobucket to stop providing image hosting? |
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Rumour going the rounds appears to be true.
I have a paid for account but they have changed their terms of service are reportedly now only going to allow 3rd party hosting from their $300 per year account.
No way I'm migrating the 12Gb of images elsewhere (I have all the originals anyway, I don't overwrite flash memory) so sorry folks, if this turns out to be true, all my images on all my threads are going to disappear.
If this happens, I'm going to look into hosting my images myself. Servers appear to be becoming affordable and my internet connection is now sufficiently quick to make it work.
Does anyone else host their own images? How much of a pain in the arse is it?
If you have shares in photobucket, I'd suggest you sell them now! Their entire customer base is about to disappear. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Howling Terror Super Spammer
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Posted: 16:27 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Subject line in their email made me double take as it mentions my account is restricted for excessive usage. Thought I'd done something wrong for a moment.
Downloaded my photos and closed the account which will take a few days.
Thinking of those touring blogs and forum workshops...
I'll not be trawling through my old posts either.
PhotoCuntBucket. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
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ScaredyCat World Chat Champion
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stinkwheel |
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 17:44 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Downloading mine would be a nightmare. I have literally HUNDREDS of sub albums and I'd have to request a download for each one.
Thankfully, I don't actually ever delete photos. I keep all the memory cards so the whole archive is still there, just MUCH more badly organised. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Rogue_Shadow World Chat Champion
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Posted: 17:54 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Anyone recommend a decent alternative?
It's strange not having a display Picture.
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Ste Not Work Safe
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Posted: 18:05 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Your avatar can be hosted on BCF. |
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lihp World Chat Champion
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wots World Chat Champion
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Posted: 18:24 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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Just been for a look myself, been using for a while, mainly for image linking to here. I HAD the Plus 20 account. Which it looks like will be discontinued and pretty much all accounts are bollocks now.
So Photobucket
I have a server in a datacentre on a gigabit link, time to make my own I guess.
Waiting for the "Where did you go on your bike" and similar threads to crash .... ____________________ Currently: Yamaha DT 125 LC2,Repsol Fireblade, and Bumblebee MSX 125 |
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doggone World Chat Champion
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Posted: 22:30 - 30 Jun 2017 Post subject: |
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I'm looking at https://postimage.io/
Photobucket has been shite for a long time. They're idiots TBH - this is just going to kill them off. |
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Ste Not Work Safe
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 10:44 - 01 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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Anyone got a link to a good "idiots guide" (guides) to setting up a home server then hosting my own images?
I've got a plethora of "graveyard" PCs lying around. I'm also not against the idea of using a Pi (for quietness as much as anything). I have a pretty modern and well specced modem/router.
I use linux at home anyway (used debian, mint and ubuntu in the past) although I wouldn't say I'm entirely comfortable with terminal.
In the house, I have a small network racking cabinet with a patch panel, an ethernet switch and a (now pretty old) stand-alone NAS drive I use for backup. The house is wired up with cat5 cabling.
I presume I'm going to need to buy/build a PC, a domain name and invest in a couple of redecent spec hard drives to make this work? ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Rogerborg nimbA
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Posted: 11:51 - 01 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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sudo apt-get install lighttpd
Dump whatever you want to serve straight into /var/www
/var/www/stark-fist-of-proctology.jpg will be served as https://www.yourdomain.foo/stark-fist-of-proctology.jpg
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DynamicDNS
I use https://freedns.afraid.org/
So...
Create an account.
sudo apt-get install ddclient
sudo nano /etc/ddclient.conf
daemon=5m
timeout=10
syslog=no # log update msgs to syslog
ssl=yes
use=web
server=freedns.afraid.org
protocol=freedns
login=YOUR_FREEDNS_LOGIN_NAME
password=YOUR_FREEDNS_PASSWORD
YOUR_FREEDNS_DOMAIN
Although my Virgin Media IP address is for all practical purposes static so I could just update manually. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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doggone World Chat Champion
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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Posted: 13:21 - 01 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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It does occurr to me here that PB have, in one fell swoop, broken more of the internet than anything I've encountered before.
There will be innumerable Blogs, webpages and forum posts which will have been rendered redundant practically overnight because while they are historically a bit of a pain in the arse, they are used by an awful lot of people.
I post extensive and picture heavy blogs about canoeing trips I've done. They are all hosted on PB. They will all break. There are over 100 individual sub albums in my PB just on canoeing. Each of which corresponds to a blog. It would take hours even to just request the downloads for them. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Rogerborg nimbA
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Posted: 13:41 - 01 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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Eh, I just use a Pi and a USB HDD, no case required.
Raspbian is fine, it's just Debian with some tweaks. apt-get is all you're really after.
I have a domain but I only use it for email because of... secrecy jurisdiction. My domain provider's DNS tools are also rubbish, so it's actually easier to use freedns.
Being able to create an infinite number of:
unique_sender_name@mydomain.foo
email addresses is an Allahsend, as it allows better spam blocking, and reveals who's been selling my contact details - I'm looking at you, Motorcycle Direct. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Tracer1234 World Chat Champion
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Posted: 12:19 - 02 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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Bastards
https://s20.postimg.org/6ve29zq6l/Screenshot_2017-07-02_at_12.18.26.png ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
Used to ride: 2015 Yamaha MT-09 Tracer (smidsy) 09 Triumph Street Triple (P/X'd) 08 Yamaha YBR (Sold)
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Suntan Sid World Chat Champion
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Posted: 11:18 - 03 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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Any speculation as to why some PB photo's have disappeared and others haven't?
From what I can see all mine appear, in my show and tell thread, I can see other peoples stuff linked from PB, yet others have gone. ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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linuxyeti World Chat Champion
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Posted: 11:36 - 03 Jul 2017 Post subject: |
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For years, I've used no-ip dynamic dns, and jAlbum free version, Apache, and, for just chucking things up, also, I use Single File PHP Gallery
https://sye.dk/sfpg/
It really is a single php file in your server root directory.. ____________________ Beware what photos you upload, or link to on here, especially if you have family members on them |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 299 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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