For start adding bitcoin address at the page bottom for donation is also fine, but additional donation buttons are welcome addition and they can include more fiat donations, paypal, etc.

I don't like this, but I think many alternatives people are using today for uploading images are doing something similar.
We can't expect joker_josue to use his own hosting and hard drive space for this, but have you tested how imgur, imgbb and others are handling this?

All posts and images is archived so changing links is not doing much, but I wanted to delete image from server itself and stop wasting space for hosting useless stuff.
I know saw some image hosting have temporary image upload that gets auto-deleted after set amount of time.
This is not best use case for forum but it can be useful for something else.

It's always better to do it now than later
Adding donation address on website costs nothing.

Most image sharing sites don't really care about long-term availability of user-images.

It's not as if cloud hosting is free.

From what I've seen, they host the images on their own domain, or a subdomain of their domain. That gives them the possibility to move to a different webhost without breaking external links.

Great work joker_josue

Stating a new project is really exciting.  There are many challenges here, such as the ones mentioned by LoyceV about hosting cloud costs and so on.

But certainly that is an important project here and your website can really get lots of visitors and be very useful.

Are you the one who created this hosting service for uploaded images on this forum platform? In fairness it's nice that you gave it away.



      At least this time there are two options that can be used in this kind of photo uploading, if before it was just imgbb,
I will definitely use https://www.talkimg.com/, it will help a lot of people. here. Congratulations to you.

Theymos isn't scary

I checked my own images: In the past 4 years, I've uploaded 369 images (31 MB) (I'm not counting non-image data). If you multiply that by 1000, it still fits a fairly small VPS.

Does the forum's image proxy not cache them? How much bandwidth are we talking about? From what I've seen, bandwidth is expensive at cloud providers, but can be much cheaper in monthly plans elsewhere. But you probably know that already

I'm not Joker_josue seems to have experience hosting images.

All this can be worked out once it happens. I know a thing or two about storing data, and while I started it for data dumps that were too large to fit in one post, I now have several TB of data. What can I say: things get out of hand!
But, while that happened, people also appreciated what I do, which lead to sponsored hosting.

As a user, I don't like it when a host messes with my images (although wiping exif is a good thing). It's not up to the host to decide what quality losses are acceptable.

That's the part I would worry about much more than the technical aspects.

I assume it's a hobby. Or maybe he just wanted to the the top-merited user this month I'm kidding of course.

Congratulations on developing the new service. By the way very refreshing and eye-catchy theme, and color combination.
It seems I do have a similar question as others are having and it would be better if the answer comes from the OP himself. How far are you gonna go with this service and are you willing to increase the hosting power anytime soon?

I tried using it, but the upload is pretty slow and this is gonna lag even further as it becomes a more powerful tool in the future. If it gets crowded then definitely it is going to lag the uploads.

If this service is going to be available for others then I might just publish it amongst my moderation team on the micro-tasking site. They would be happy to see this as users need to upload screenshots all the time. Could use this one effectively. Good luck mate.

I clearly understand your point of view. By the way, that was the main question that was asked in this topic. If you notice my answers are: than depending on me this project is to last a long, long time.

Note my story of an online gallery, which I have maintained online for over 10 years. Having an online gallery doesn't scare me and I am aware of the resources needed to keep one up and running.

Sometimes numbers are spoken of in a frightening way. But sometimes it's not like that. My service only accepts images up to 2.5 MB, this makes everything more controlled. Imagine that all forum users (3536195 members), upload a 1MB image, I would need 4GB of disk space. I do technical management of a website that has just over 66k images and occupies 30GB of disk space. By the way, you can visit here: https://allaircraft.net/

Believe me, I would be very happy to have 3000000 images on the site.
But realistically, you would think that all forum users will post 1 MB image, most will upload images under 1 MB. Do you know what is the current average of the images that have already been uploaded? Less than 200KB. Sometimes when talking about an image, you think that everything will take up a lot of space, but remember, I limit everything to 2.5MB.

The biggest problem will be bandwidth, but that's only with time that I'll be able to evaluate the best solutions to apply. At the moment, I have a lot of available bandwidth (20GB/month), which I have the possibility to increase with some ease without major cost changes.

With that, I just want to demonstrate that I'm familiar with this type of site, and I intend to keep the service indefinitely.




I made it clear in the terms of service that all images that violate copyright may be deleted. That is, at the first credible notification, the image is deleted. I'm not going to discuss this kind of thing, because all platforms in the genre do the same thing: they delete everything that violates copyright when they are notified.




Yes it's a hobby... My first website www.jokerartgallery.com came from a school work and is online until today, despite the project having ended. Almost 90% of what I know about websites is thanks to this hobby. Therefore, I believe that any donations and one or two advertisements are enough to continue to feed this hobby. 
Regarding the merits, you discovered...  I'm kidding of course. Or not...




Thank you for sharing this, and I will keep an eye out for these types of cases.
Either way, the use of IP will be the most extreme measure I can apply. It would be necessary to enter many (really many) spam images, or outside the rules, for me to analyze this type of blocking. I will always prefer individual moderation for each image.




Did you feel slowness on the website? By the way, what was the image you uploaded?

So far, all the records I have have been good response times. Of course, there may be times when it slows down, but there are several factors for this. From your internet connection, or your internet provider, browser or others. Perhaps at peak usage, it can also happen. But I doubt that happened today, as only 12 uploads were made (until this post).




As I indicated in the OP, I can authorize the use of the images elsewhere. But in that case I suggest you send a PM so we can talk about it.




The site is configured to only work in this forum. So no matter how popular it is, no one will be able to use the images outside the forum.




I have no intentions of creating any image compression system. I don't like loss of quality, and it annoys me to see images that are blurry, disproportionate, full of pixels and the like. I only delete the EXIF data to ensure greater privacy for users.

Furthermore, the limitation of just 2.5MB is more than enough to ensure that the images are of good quality, without being overly large.

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Once again thank you for everyone's support! I hope this platform is useful for you.