Hosting site, Which one is best?

[OC Zoom]

I'm new here and have not yet chosen a hosting site. This is where I need your advice. The four that keep popping up are smugmug,pbase, flickr and photobucket. I want one that doesn't charge a fee. What are your good and bad experiences with these or do you have a favorite that I havent listed?:)

[12stones]

For a lot of my hosting, I use www.imageshack.us. It's free, unlimited photos and they provide the code for multiple formats. For grouping my stuff so people can see "me" I use flickr.

[In2Photos]

While Pbase isn't free it is quite cheap, only $23 for a year for 400 MB of storage. Well worth it IMO.

[EOSAddict]

You get what you pay (or don't pay!) for! Even a smugmug standard account is unlimited storage.

[Familiaphoto]

I would go for one of the pay services, I like smugmug myself and am working on porting picks there as we speak. I used to have Flicker but all the adds annoy the heck out of me. Well worth paying a couple bucks a year.

[jnev]

I use picasaweb and it's been great, no problems and you get 1gb of storage free.

[OC Zoom]

Not much response to my question.Do you think all are adequate? Are there any to avoid? I think I will get one that has a fee to avoid all the advertising.More comments still welcome.

[In2Photos]

Not much response to my question.Do you think all are adequate? Are there any to avoid? I think I will get one that has a fee to avoid all the advertising.More comments still welcome.
Well I doubt many of us have used more than one or two. I have used PBase for my own stuff and SmugMug for the POTN Book. Each has its own unique features that I like but in the end I prefer the clean pages of Pbase over the benefits of SmugMug's uploadling and sorting features.

[EOSAddict]

It is worth a search here on the key names, there are fans of most of them its just what suits you.

[Keith R]

Not much response to my question.

I think you meant "Thanks for all the help so far..."

[Bill Ng]

Check out Half-Lime ... the interface is the best I've ever seen, it hosts movies, pictures, you can print right from it, it's fast, and the owner/developer is readily available and responds quickly to enhancement requests. There's a chat board, message forum ... it is quite the system and completely free.

http://www.half-lime.com

Bill

[Dan-o]

I think most have a free trial so give them a try. I'm very happy with Smug.

[EOSAddict]

I think you meant "Thanks for all the help so far..."

LOL!

[OC Zoom]

LOL!


I guess I was too impatient with not many responses to my question. Since last night there has been many responses and I have learned alot from your answers. Thank you all very much for your answers.:)

[CyberDyneSystems]

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=163130

[superdiver]

I will add my complements to smugmug...

[bauerman]

www.zenfolio.com

Dollar for dollar and feature for feature - it does not get any better than these guys.