Originally Posted by
Mars_302
A lot. I can put whatever I want, however I want on my own site. I can use whatever gallery software i want to choose. I can view stats on my site and see whose viewing what and where they are coming from. The only advantage to a thing like flickr is its easy.
I use dreamhost.com as my site hoster, I pay $120 a year right now, I get my own domain name, all the email addresses I want, I can ftp, create user accounts. I currently have 250 gigs of space and 5 terabytes of bandwidth, and I never even 3% of that. Plus it grows every week.
Well, I use reliablesite.net for my hosting. The plan is to setup a gallery2 install for everyone to use here. It's about as easy as flickr (if not more convenient) and it's fast. I pay $9.95/mo and I've got 100gb of storage and 999gb of transfer per month.
Overselling is rampant in the hosting world - very few people use more than a couple of gigabytes of storage and transfer per month and these providers bank on that.
Anyway, gallery is setup. I just need to setup a domain and it should be ready to go.