Also there is a lot of “direct-linking”/”hot linking” of images on FR...bad manners to steal bandwidth from another person’s website. Please host photos on a server you control/own or on a free photo posting site like “Imgur”, “TinyPic”, “Imageshack” or “Photobucket”.
http://deuceofclubs.com/switcheroo/
and a FR example:
http://deuceofclubs.com/switcheroo/switch19.htm
I tend to agree except the large sites including wordpress.com are sized to handle the extra load. Also I would rather not be tracked which people could do on their own servers if they want to. But hypothetically tracking by third party hosting could be worse. For example, I had extreme reservations about posting the threads where photos were hosted on websites in Ukraine (typically news websites but also some others).
The basic problem is that anyone with the logs from the server where the photo is stored can correlate a poster's IP address with their screen name by comparing the times of when the poster posts their post and when they access the photo from the server.
Is there a free video hosting server you recommend? I’m looking to host a video the horrible weather I having today.