Photobucket Hosting Problems, Best way to host photos? Options

[R_u_dd]

Photobucket changed their policy hosting third party photos. If you use their free service and get a lot of hits on your thread you will see a warning in place of the photo. This has really messed a lot of blog sites that use their hosting service.

Have you experienced this problem?

What have you done to fix it?

Any cool articles on how to replace the photos in an automated format rather than changing the links one at a time?

Could use help from the web host here. I know I can google all this but was wondering if there is a forum strategy we are using at 914world.

Thanks.

[McMark]

Yeah, the admin team decided Photobucket was COMPLETELY SHITTY a few years ago and we (meaning Andy) wrote a script to grab ALL offsite images and save them here. We needed to do this to avoid having threads filled with dead images. This puts all of our content into our own control. We will never have to deal with 'eroding' threads.

Now if we could capture a snapshot of linked webpages, that would cover all the bases. For all those ebay.com ad links that are now meaningless. Think of all the "Check out this car on eBay!" threads that now are completely worthless since the original eBay listing has been deleted. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)