If you did not realize by now that I have been using Photobucket as my photo hosting site, what have you been doing all these time? I have used Photobucket to host my images since March! And to tell you the truth, I am quite impressed with the speed. Again, I would like to stress that I am not paid by Photobucket to say nice things about them, nor did they offer me free premium photo hosting services if I kiss their ass more often. Nothing of that sort. I am using their free service already. Basically they have 2 level of service, one is the basic free service while the other is the Pro, which is a premium service. Well, the Pro account gives you a bigger storage space, more bandwidth and ability to use FTP to upload or download your images. And the cost is US$39.95 per year, which I think is quite reasonable.

When I first started this blog, I actually wanted to host the pictures and photos on my own webhost. Then I realize that images do use up a lot of bandwidth and this will eat into my allocation for the month. So in order to save on bandwidth, I decided to use another third party hosting for the images. And I found Photobucket. I was rather impressed at the speed they provide. I am sure that their servers are always overfilled with images and photos, but yet for most time of the day, I do get some fairly decent speeds. Of course, I am not saying that the speed is blazing fast, but acceptable to me and I am sure acceptable to most webmasters out there. I mean for god’s sake, it’s free.

I am now very tempted to get the Pro account. But I think for the time being, I don’t really need it. I doubt that the number of visitors to my blog will go so high as to finish all the bandwidth allocated to my free account. So, I am sure that I will find better use for my money. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t go ahead and apply for their Pro account.