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Okay, so like most of us who post here, the usual go-to photo hosts are imagevenue, imgbox, & imgbam.

The issue they all have -- very unpredictably -- are the popup ads, the unwelcome porn chat windows opening up for
no apparent reason, etc. We've all seen it.

Of course, having an adblocker does help, but not 100% of the time.

I'm going to ask for some pointers here, because I'm setting up a blog and I need a photo host that
is devoid of all the ad crap, all the time. For the purpose of my blog, I cannot risk anything like that being seen
whenever someone clicks on a pic. But it also has to allow me various size thumbnails as well, similar to
how the ones we use do -- 150x150, 300x300, and so on....no tiny postage stamp thumbs that you can barely see.

So who here can point me to one that's that safe and that flexible? I'm not a user of say, photobucket or a few of
the others you need to sign in to, so I don't know if they would work or not.

Thanks in advance!







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I host my images directly on my site. (I gave up third-party sites long ago for the exact reasons you mentioned.) You didn't say which blogging software you're going to use, however a self-hosted WordPress in conjunction with JetPack has a free option to use wordpress.com as a CDN to take some of the load off of your own server. No crap, just the image and nothing else.

As for thumbnail image sizes, WordPress allows you to set the dimensions to whatever you want.

Though if you want to also share you're images from WordPress on other sites/forums, that's going to be a challenge...

Upload the images directly to the blog host? I know they tend to require you to upload the pics individually, bad if you tend to post large numbers of caps. Is there a bulk upload option?

Of course WordPress--both the self-install and the wordpress.com version--has a bulk upload option. Would be crazy not to.

Then again I guess any upload limits depends on which host you choose if you go the self-install route, but no such limits on the servers I rent.

I guess that goes to show what I know about blogging. As for image hosts, they are of course going to display ads and a lot of adult ads, because they probably pay the best. Photobucket doesn't, but their free account limits your bandwidth, so if you get a lot of views, your going to get a lot of those "users bandwidth limit exceeded" gifs that we've all seen around. If I were going down the blog route, I'd probably just use imagebam and assume that my viewers have already seen imagebam's ads. Maybe put a NSFW warning above the thumbnails?

Okay -- thanks for the answers so far...

And here's what I didn't mention before -- it's a blogspot/blogger.com site, so being that it's associated with
Google, I've found that the images can come from a Picasa album with no trouble.

It is a bit limited on the thumbnail sizing, but they're not ridiculously small.

There's only going to be a couple dozen images on it for now anyway. And no, I'm not risking
popups at all if I can help it.... this blog will be related to my business, so that HAS to be minimized.

For the few ones that I need to be extra-big thumbnails, it looks like Imagebam gives me only intermittent
ad popups, and generally they're gaming ads, not x-rated.




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