What's the better choice, hosting images locally or using imgur to host your images for you? (l.lucitt.com)

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I believe there are pros and cons for both. Imgur is great because you truly don't have to think about disk space or bandwidth. Imgur is not great because they can delete your posts at any time without warning and leave holes on the interenet, especially if we're talking 5, 10 , 20 years from now.

Should I invest in a beefy server to store all of my photo needs without storage anixety? Or should I just rely on a larger company to handle it for me? I think I'm already answering my own question by writing this post out, but I'd love to hear from the self hosting community.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd think that a few terrabytes in a server would mean that you wouldn't have to worry about image files for a while

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Please use a proper image host. When your uploads get federated, if they are uploaded directly to lemmy, the images get federated as well. While you may have a large server, a lot of people don't.

It even says on the lemmy docs to use a third party image service that's built to host images:

Note that this functionality is not meant to share large images or videos, because that would require too many server resources. Instead, upload them on another platform like PeerTube or Pixelfed, and share the link on Lemmy.

Someone made a post the other day (since deleted) asking why their instance was slow after they uploaded NINETY high res images in one post. Please don't be that person.

I've been looking for a way to cache images elsewhere instead of on my server as they are federated here, as my instance is tiny. I'm hoping I can find a way that's not a bucket someplace as I don't trust myself to not mess one of those up and end up with a massive bill.

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