I feel that one of the best decisions I've made for myself in the past year was purchaing my own webspace.  I found a provider with an incredible deal compared to most of what I'd seen out there: for less than $7 a month I have: 5GB of space, 400GB of transfer (that's like...nearly unlimited), my own domain name, and tons of extra support for running galleries, content management systems, and if I even desired, stores.

Ok, I'm starting to sound like a shill here, but honestly I'm not.  That's why I haven't mentioned who my webhost is (though if you ask, I'll certainly tell you).  I searched for a few weeks and I found many, MANY webhosts that cost up to double with only a fraction the storage and bandwidth limits (500MB space and 20GB of transfer for $15/month? no thanks).

You may think "man these people are ungrateful asses!", but don't you ever think they may have have at least some validity to their complaints about unavailability?  Don't you ever feel frustrated that you cannot rely on your content to be available and ready to go for all who want it?  I know that I did when I was in a similar situation with the high resolution images I wanted to provide to my fans.

Now, by no means am I saying you're wrong, or that you yourself don't have a point.  I'm just trying to come out and say that I was able to make myself and my fans (and my family) happier by spending an extremely reasonably small amount of money to ensure the stability of my gallery.  You might consider that for yourself.

¤~Giolon~¤

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