Reply interspersed. On 11/26/2012 2:09 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
I suspect you are aware of everything what I've written below.. But I am surprised why you asked, so, maybe there is something new for you in this.
You're right. I mean, I am aware of what you wrote below but still...
I didn't have experience with GoDaddy's hosting per se, but I see your options as follows: 1. Use one of the existing dedicated photo-hosting services, such as Flickr, Smugmug, 500px.com, ... (BTW, 500px has a "cyber monday special" right now: https://500px.com/upgrade ) Personally, I would probably choose 500px, not sure at which paid level - depending on what is needed. The reason for that is that I just don't like flickr's own interface.
I just looked up 500px license. Hmmm, if you ask me.
Cons: If you read ToS for all such photo-hosting services cafefully, you'll find that you are giving them the rights to use your photos as they like (non-exclusive license to publish, ditribute and use the content). While it is clear that they need it to be able to display your photos that you choose to make public, by this clause you grant them much more. Some photographers are not comfortable with that. Besides, the photo-hosting can take your photos hostage (as it has been done recently by fotki.com)
Right, fotki.com is a good example. In general I don't quite like the idea of posting my photos, and in case of Flickr integration to LR it is full size JPGs, elsewhere. I used to be ambivalent about it but since I got to know that at least one photo of mine has been "lifted" by that Italian hotel (thanks Dario for helping me take care of it) my mind changed.
Obviously one may export small web size photos that later would be uploaded to Flickr or 500x or whatever but that's tiresome.
Alternatively this guy has some interesting stuff though I did not really look into it yet:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr
2. Use a web-hosting/co-location/... (depending on the level desired) and upload your own static galleries like those created in LR, JAlbum, etc. (e.g. as Brian Walters does it for PUG). Pro: You own everything and have full access. Cons: Galleries are static. You have to regenerate/reupload them if you need to change something. You cannot have one photo appearing in several sets (without duplicated copy - for each set). I am currently using this route (when I have time to upload photos.. ooh)
Well, I just paid for JAlbum (since ver 10.x they've gone shareware) license. The good thing about JAlbum (if you did not know) is that you can set up a folder structure (see on my web site) and have all your pictures taken care of together. Additionally, when you add new picture(s), JAlbum is smart enough to upload only what has changed. It won't upload everything. Therefore, with exception of very initial upload, it is actually quite fast.
I plan to dig further into JAlbum and may be I will just use it for my content management.
There is another side benefit of going this route. Without any effort whatsoever you get all your web content backed up so that if things go sour, you can easily migrate to another hosting, location, service provider, etc.
3. Advanced webhosting/co-location VM/server/... ..with a Content Management software that essentially duplicates the photo-hosting websites. I don't know if such software exists (at the level comparable to that of Flickr, not just primitive homegrown javascript/php/... scripts). If you find such software, please let me know.
I looked up CMSes on google and it is pain in the neck. If you want something serious (not based on great many files throughout the file system) it has to be DB based and it means significantly more administration thank dragging and dropping in JAlbum and waiting for it to upload.
Purely theoretically there may be some PCMSes (personal content management systems) or there might be a potential for some open source project here.
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