Image Hosting on Reddit

Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by chadscira on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @05:02PM (#11949388)

This was the reason why I created http://img42.com. They bombard you with ads, and other "features". I wanted something where I could just click, drag and drop, or pate and it would be uploaded.

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by JorgeGT on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:09AM (#11952848)

> I got fed up with all the other image hosts out there so I made my own. It doesn't force you to compress your images, and it has neat things like crop, resize, rotate, and compression from 10-100. It's my gift to you. Let's not see anymore imageshack/photobucket around here ;) I'll be listening if anyone has some suggestions.

EDIT: The server was moved off of shared hosting after about 4 hours of release. It's now on a dedicated server with a 100mb port.

EDIT2: This is an old post and it's no longer on just one 1 dedicated server. It's on many, and utilizes a CDN provided by Voxel.

This was the original post [0] announcing the creation of imgur 7 years ago. Maybe in 7 years from now you have your own img42 image hosting emporium! :)

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[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_t...

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by chadscira on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:34PM (#11963763)

Haha, these posts do look very similar.

I have been hosting img42 off a $5 a mo/ droplet :P. It has served XXm+ impressions, and 1m uploads since its creation. I also have been sustaining a ~3m a day DDOS from Russia for about a year now.

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by corobo on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:45AM (#11953410)

"easy temporary image hosting" - How long do images last before being removed?

It was actually that drawback that lead me to making/using my own image host! With my own host, files that were uploaded back in 2012 when it first started working are still there - with the same URL (despite URL scheme changing since then)

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by chadscira on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:27PM (#11963713)

You can change the image lifespan to forever. The site has been around since 2012, and images are still up.

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by corobo on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:32PM (#11963750)

Awesome, also interesting we both bailed on imgur at the same time. It must have been around then it got unbearable!

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by chadscira on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:41PM (#11963799)

Yeah they transitioned into becoming a social network... I cant believe they were able to maintain traffic after adding so much friction -_-

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by krackers on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:18PM (#11951123)

Neat service. How do you plan to offset the hosting, storage, and bandwidth costs though?

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by chadscira on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:29PM (#11963730)

Costs haven't been that bad, I have floated it since 2012 (only around 1M images have been uploaded).

But I have some scalable plans if it were to take off without breaking the bank.

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by robbbbbbbbb on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:50AM (#11951624)

What an awesome UI, I love it. Thanks for making something so cool.

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Re:Image Hosting on Reddit by chadscira on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:44PM (#11963817)

I have long overdue v2v2 (killed the original v2) update for the UI. I'll try to post it on HN when I complete it. The UI you see now was done in 2012.

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