The online world is brutally unforgiving – and businesses stand or fail on the reliability of the basic services they provide. I was pointed at ImageShack when I learned how to put pictures in forum posts and needed somewhere online to host them.
ImageShack offers free online hosting. Ok, so off I went and hosted my images and, at first glance, it seemed a great arrangement. By the time 6 months had passed using ImageShack, I’d noticed odd (but infuriating) problems: images seeming to disappear; failing to show after uploading (only to turn up in the album days later?); a hair-pullingly confusing lost-password cycle… and now, finally, another day when images aren’t appearing in blogs and websites.
So, that’s it. Goodbye ImageShack. And there are no second chances. At present, the pictures on this blog and in our website are hosted by PhotoBucket. Until, of course, such times as they fall over too.
