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Originally Posted by Lee4145
And what's the difference between that and a website? Would there be any reason to have both?
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This is going to sound a little pedantic, but bear with me: Flickr, SmugMug, and the like are web sites ... just like you can set up yourself. Anything served up over HTTP is a web site.
There's nothing magic about what image hosts do.
They still have some advantages. Flickr has some pretty good software; most of them do. If you want other people to see your photos, they tend to already have big communities. They're very easy to work with. With a lot of them, they're 100 % free, and there's no way you could be charged 'by surprise.' ( Hosting your own site, bandwidth can be an issue ... although it's not likly anymore. )
Now these places have some disadvantages, too. For me, loss of control is the worst among them. My web site is going through a redesign, and both are ugly as hell, but I can change anything about it any time I learn how to be aesthetic.
I can run a photo blog, and
embed working Google Maps in it, which can fascinate me until the end of time. I can do things to make it harder for people to grab my images, although I don't right now. I don't have to agree to any type of contract about how others might use them. This isn't full proof, but for me, it's better.
Somebody mentioned "Fantastico" one-click installer in c[ontrol]-panel. It's good stuff. It
will take more effort to do it yourself, but most of that is up front, and once only.