Imagehost.org Died!

[Jale]

Yes people. The Imagehost.com has died for the following reasons:

Finance issues. ImageHost.org was a free image hosting service that was supported by the advertisements you see on the site. While this went fine for a while, recently ad income plummeted to a level where the ad income isn't even covering the cost of the servers anymore. And I am not a charity, so this a critical problem.

Server issues. While in the past two weeks the servers operated reasonbly well, it was sometimes a nightmare to keep the servers up and running. This is a problem that would have just gotten more difficult if the service had grown any larger and needed more servers.

Time. I run ImageHost.org as a part-time activity (I'm a student). However keeping illegal content off the site & other administration duties are taking more time than I had enticipated.

Abuse. Did you know that out of the 410,000 images on the site right now over 13,000 have been deleted due to some kind of abuse or another? Now it's not really that annoying to keep porn images off the site. But what was especially annoying was getting angry mail from my server providers about images that were used in spam and phishing emails. This has even caused one of the ImageHost.org servers to be disconnected by my provider at one time.

Alternative Sites...

Rest in peace

[KidneyKai]

I wonder how much of it was due to the people of EZ. I didn't even know it was back up.

[Lefteris_D]

I wonder how much of it was due to the people of EZ. I didn't even know it was back up.

It had nothing to do with EZ. This was a standalone version.

[onewecallgod]

didnt even know it was back up.

[Jale]

There's nothing more like Imagehost.org, I must say it. Other sites are very limmited... I miss you

[Jet Set Willy]

Imagehost was a good, high quality tool, but also an example of why we can't really expect something /good/ for nothing on the 'net.

[onewecallgod]

photobucket.com ?
imageshack.us ?

these are both unlimited bandwith image hosts

[Lefteris_D]

The largest problem was(and still is) the cost and as the announcement says, it's no charity.

[Jet Set Willy]

photobucket.com ?
imageshack.us ?

these are both unlimited bandwith image hosts

Not as good, though.

[GHDpro]

Well if I get of my lazy ass I might put together a "registration only" version of ImageHost
that will have pretty much the same features (and maybe some more).

I must also note that the financial part was just a _part_ of the problem as I mention on that page.
There are also the porn uploaders, spammers, phishers, damn chinese who can't read the TOS
and upload something that's then hit 20,000 times in one hour (the only limit being that the server
was on a 10mbit port).

Now if IH ever comes back I'm thinking about making it invitation only like Gmail. That way,
the only way new people can sign up is through their friends. And if they misbehave, I can
(if necessary only) can make people responsible for the friends they invite to the service.
But I'm thinking to far ahead again... it's al just ideas right now. Like AnimeSuki "v2". That
has been mostly an idea for 8+ months now.

And one more thing, for as long as it lasts:
http://www.imagehost.org/nocookie.php