Image Hosting, Free or very cheaply Options

[sandusky1977]

So, with the changes to PhotoBucket it's obvious that we need another method for members to link photos to their posts. I've done some checking and it seems that Amazon web services allows you to store up to 5gb of photos with 20k requests a month for free.

1) Signup for Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 then click "Create an AWS Account"
2) You will need a credit card to register, but you will not be charged unless you go over 5gb of storage or your files are requested more then 20,000 times in a month
3) Once you've registered go to "Host a static website"
4) On the lower left click on "Manage Files"
5) This brings you to a web based file manager. I chose to store my test image in the "/img" folder
6) Click Upload and browse for the file you would like to share
7) Once it's finished uploading, click on the filename in your list
8) Click the button "Make Public"
9) At the bottom of the page there will now be a link you can use to share your post



The above photo is now hosted on my Amazon Cloud Storage Solution

[Bitter]

Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.

http://imgur.com/tos

Cause that's why not to use IMGUR for hosting and hotlinking a ton of stuff to car forums, they don't want you to. They don't seem to enforce it much but at some point they will, especially with everyone flocking there now.