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[Cukeman]

I've had a website up for a handful of years now, and I just realized that images on Tinypic
are only hosted for a certain period of time. A couple pictures have been dropped from
my account, and therefore my website as well.

What alternatives are there? I also use Photobucket, but that is also a free host, so the images
will likely get dropped there too eventually. I switched from Photobucket to Tinypic because
Tinypic let me upload larger images without compressing them to blurry .JPGs

I need to find a permanent image host, whether free or low-cost, and I don't know of any,
can you give me some suggestions to start with? And no, I'm not very good at internet searches.

[The Satellite]

Imageshack would be one, and Photobucket won't drop yours if you're uploading them to your own account.

[Ventus]

If you get an account, Imagesghack would be the best bet. With imageshack if you upload to your own account the photos you upload will never go away unless you delete them.
So yeah I would second imageshack.

[franpa]

Photobucket hasn't lost a single image I've uploaded (I have a FREE account with them). But be aware that they have I think a 2MB cap on file sizes and a limit on image dimensions (The image will be downscaled if it exceeds it). Though I think recently the limitations got a bit more lax for free users.

[Bagel]

Another alternative is using something like Dropbox; any file you put into your 'Public' dropbox directory can easily be linked to. There's no real filesize or image dimension limit since it's not just for storing images.
However they will send you a message if you're using too much bandwidth -- and believe me you'd have to use a LOT -- like you'd have to be sharing some huge (150MB+) files before they did that.