I often use photo sharing host to well…host my photos. They are a great bandwidth saver for me as my webhost has a limit on the amount of bandwidth I can make use per month. Text usually don’t take up much bandwidth. However, photos and images do. Not to mention videos or audio which could really leech up tons of bandwidth if your site goes viral! Just check out those sites that got “dugg” and how fast they collapse due to the huge surge in bandwidth usage (and server load as well).

Anyway, I have complied a list of photo sharing (and video sharing) websites where you can “share” your images with your friends. Take a look below:

1. http://photobucket.com/ - My favourite. Fast, stable and you can upload multiple files into your account at the same time. Free service.
2. http://www.flickr.com/ - Another very popular photo sharing website. This site really attracts a crowd. Free service.
3. http://www.dropshots.com/ - Themed as a family photo sharing website. Not really, but it works. Free service.
4. http://www.smugmug.com/ - Another good photo sharing website. Seems to attract the same crowd as flickr. Not sure whether that is a good thing or not. Paid service.
5. http://atpic.com/ - Simple photo sharing host. Doesn’t have the flash of the other sites which makes it all more attractive to me. Free service.
6. http://www.myalbum.com/ - Based in Netherlands. Free service.
7. http://picasaweb.google.com/ - Google’s answer to photo sharing. The software works great but this image sharing service I did not try yet. But it’s Google, so…. Oh, free service.
8. http://www.webshots.com/ - Formerly the site that offers some nice screen savers which eats up tons of resources on your PC and cause your PC to crash. They are now offering image and photo sharing as well. Free service.
9. http://www.23hq.com/ - Looks good but I never tried it. Free service.
10. http://www.bubbleshare.com/ - Claims to be the easiest photo sharing and hosting site on the Internet. Well…I don’t know about that one but at least it is free.
11. http://www.ringo.com/ - Looks decent and very web2.0. Actually it looks like one of the many photo sharing sites out there these days. Free service.
12. http://www.fotki.com/ - Tried this one. Very fast photo and image host. Free and paid service.

Well, go ahead and try them out. I don’t understand how these photo sharing sites make money? I am sure that their bandwidth usage is extreme and since a lot of them are free, how do they make money? The advertisements I see on their sites will probably not make them a lot of money and the images hosted on their servers do not display any advertisement captions either.