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Looking for a new hosting service for my images
Me | October 8, 2023 | My bad self

Posted on 10/08/2023 2:32:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I'm looking for a new hosting service for the images that I sometimes put on Free Republic. A few months ago, somebody's browser freaked out at one of the images I put up, thinking there was malware involved. Since then, I stopped posting the images, but I want to migrate my site to a new hosting service with a decent SSL, because the host and SSL I have are obviously not that good, and the price is almost constantly increasing.

What say you, fellow FReepers? What is a good one to check out? I am looking on my own, but I know this is a great site for such information.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: hosting; images; turbify
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To: Openurmind
If the file you copy from a source already has malware,

That's assuming the image has malware attached. The SSl may be out of date or some certification issue and somebody saw a "not secure" warning and freaked out.

21 posted on 10/08/2023 4:30:24 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden would give Jesse James the train schedule for his 10%.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A cloud storage account is so inexpensive you could have two for redundancy. For reference,

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/?ef_id=_k_8eeadee051261b612899bbc311dc82fc_k_&OCID=AIDcmm5edswduu_SEM__k_8eeadee051261b612899bbc311dc82fc_k_&msclkid=8eeadee051261b612899bbc311dc82fc

‘hot’ means something you’re linking so pages can go reference it; ‘cool’ is archival. So $0.018 per GB monthly and it’s not many more clicks to set up than one of the usual dropbox/onedrive or image-whatever places. (I presume Amazon and google are similar; just grabbed the first one for pricing)

No guarantees that one of these might some day pull ‘misinformation’ or whatever out of their hat but less likely than one of those name storage services.


22 posted on 10/08/2023 5:00:18 PM PDT by No.6
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To: No.6

^ nonetheless, I trust other people with my data hardly if at all, so I have physical archives in case of oops or whatever.


23 posted on 10/08/2023 5:01:48 PM PDT by No.6
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This solution depends on you being moderately familiar with Linux servers, but it works perfectly for me. Cost is instance+disk. The t3.nano instance is about half a penny per hour, which is about 4 bucks a month. Disk storage is about a dime per GB-month, so 5GB of storage for images on top of say 8GB for the system comes to another two bucks or so a month. There's a trivial network charge depending on how much people access (download) your images, but it's usually negligible.

Again, this approach requires some technical familiarity with Linux. Details on request.

24 posted on 10/08/2023 5:11:56 PM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well done! That is the way to do it! :)

Linux users have to remember to try and check stuff going through as a courtesy, if they care. Malware made for windows will not bother our Linux, but it can hit any windows users we forward the file to.

I try to stay on top of that, especially when sending a downloaded file to anyone with a local native email client. But I try to only source from trusted sources.

But using “Save image as” is the best way when possible. It just saves a copy of the “rendering” not the actual file. Although the quality is not as good, I also use my “select area” in screenshot to capture the rendering.


25 posted on 10/08/2023 5:13:07 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BipolarBob

“That’s assuming the image has malware attached. The SSl may be out of date or some certification issue and somebody saw a “not secure” warning and freaked out.”

Yep, absolutely true. FireFox is really bad about giving false alerts like this when there is really nothing to worry about. But you have to be smarter than FireFox. :)


26 posted on 10/08/2023 5:15:43 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Tunehead54

Yes as far as I know you would need to be logged into postimages.


27 posted on 10/08/2023 5:26:28 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: MomwithHope

Thanks - I managed to capture an on-line image and send it to the desired directory in postimage without saving to disk - Working on it - Again, Thanks!

TH54


28 posted on 10/08/2023 6:47:59 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: MomwithHope; Tunehead54
Voila' ;-)


29 posted on 10/08/2023 6:59:12 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Imjur


30 posted on 10/08/2023 8:09:05 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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