Where do you place your images for your website?

Hello Everyone!

Where do you place your images for your website? for example: When you include images in your post (maybe lot of images), do you place them in your host or some where else like imgur, demandstudios etc... ?

Where is the best place to upload them? (fastest to load etc?)

or what do you call this kind of websites? where can i see the list of the best ones?

 

I see no problem for you to put images in your hosting. Most of them put the image in imgur because they dont have a hosting. As simple as that. Dont think too much.

 

What you are looking for is an "Image Hosting" Website.
Some of these sites are
http://tinypic.com/
http://postimage.org/
https://imageshack.com/
http://photobucket.com/

 

oh. ok thank you. i got it now. .

and i am wondering which one is the fastest one . which one do you guys prefer more ?

 

why rely on a 3rd party, what if something happens? down time, maintenance, sell up, then you have to do search and replace through your source code in your entire site, rather you than me mate, just use an 'images' folder on your own server.

 

oh I see now. Got it. thank you!

 

Yeah, keep your images on your server so you are more independent.

 

Good, that you get the clue! That is what I mean no problem to store images in your hosting.

 

yep I got it. also thank you for your comment.

and all others

 

You should upload it just on your server because it's save.

 

for better ranking and UX you should accelerate your site's loading time.
test is using Google Pagespeed insights and webpagetest.org.

I host all of my images and other static files (videos, css,JS etc..) on a professional CDN service (call CloudFiles by rackspace.com),
and if you are using Wordpress for your site you can install W3 ToTal Cache plugin which will do most of the hard work automatically including mirroring the images to the CDN.

 

Sometimes, I use the public folder of Dropbox... just a try