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Depends on how much you are willing to spend. lol. Add me to skype, and I might be able to help you a bit - cesurasean is my screen name. Talk to you soon!
Hi, The Important factors required for Image Hosting Website are as follows : *Web hosting that supports PHP/MYSQL *Domain name *Image hosting script
Edit: I noticed someone resurrected this post from the dead after posting. Damn! Anyway I leave my replies for others. image hosting sites. even marginal ones like mine get over 300k impressions a day and use bandwidth is Terrabytes monthly. So a dedicated server with unmetered bandwidth is recommended at some point. There is no harm in starting with a basic VPS like one here http://www.linode.com even going for the first level is more than enough. As it will be much time before you see that kind of traffic to required a Dedicated server. The storage requirements seem to me on the lower end since images files are not generally large. The bandwidth usage is generally 100-200 times higher than space usage. You mileage may vary but generally that is the case. My image host 3ezy.net is custom developed and does not required a database. Database and php execution can use a lot of resources. 3ezy.net uses neither (it is unique in that way but has limited functionality). Problem is expansion and resources once you really go big. You cannot possibly serve all the files from ONE server alone because one server can only serve that much even if it had the space and CPU, it will not have the port speed. For 3ezy.net I added a cluster setup that distributes files to multiple servers and chooses one based on a simple algorithm to save or serve files from. In effect I can have any number of sites running from multiple locations and one-three site down will not cause any downtime at all. Like I said, depends on what you want. The cost is quite negligible but then so are the returns. My purpose was to study and learn from it, it was a challenge, not monetary. After 5 years of running it for free and without ads I have no doubts it was worth it (tons of unsolicited thank you notes). It can be a great experience for you too. Lastly, how to create such a site. While I did not choose off-the-shelf for my own reasons of creating the fastest image host in the world (lofty but I am there) there is no end to very awesome free image hosting programs out there. Some I found recently which are really good. Some are free some paid. 1. Gallery3 http://galleryproject.org/gallery_3_begins (too heavy, but feature rich) use gallery2 if you want powerful user albums and don't care about the crappy looks. Does not scale after a point regardless of money thrown 2. http://codefuture.co.uk/projects/imagehost/ also very simple and very good. It looks like imgur and with a very little coding can get you there. In fact if you added disqus plugin to image pages you are pretty much done. Its free or $5 without copyright. 3. http://chevereto.com/ also not too bad but 49 Euros... not sure if its worth the money. 4. Wordpress - it can be used as image hosting. In fact it might even do it better than some other scripts out there. (Will not scale well unless you use something like Amazon S3) Imgur uses amazon s3 and possibly amazon cloudfront (or other CDN) both are very expensive options.