Using Flickr to show images on WordPress
I have been playing with the idea of letting Flickr hold the images I post to this site. While I am not too comfortable having the images on a third party server, they do have some amazing features, and let’s not forget the enormous user base.
For the past couple of weeks I have really started to get into the Flickr way of things. I resisted for years, but I finally cracked and gave it a fair shot — and I love it. You probably knew all this before I did, but there is one thing Flickr does that makes me doubt having my pictures on their servers. It is the fact that if you do not have a pro account, only your last 200 pictures will be visible in your photo-stream.
I get that there should be benefits of having a pro account, and there are lots of them; statistics, unlimited upload, HD video and other goodies. The thing that worries me about limiting visible photos is that they are in fact messing with my content and not just the extra features.
I do of course have all master images on my own computer, and all images posted to either Flickr or my website are only low resolution versions, so I will never really “lose” any pictures in that regard. It is still a matter of consistency and uniformity on the website, and having external sources control the content is perhaps not always a good idea.
To get a feel for how it all will look, I have attached a set with images from a previous post called Skansen using the Flickr gallery embed feature.
Dreamhost adds unlimited bandwidth and disk space for all
If you happen to be in the Dreamhost Panel and clicked on Billing -> Manage Account, you might have seen that it is now possible to upgrade to unlimited bandwidth and disk space — for free!
Just click the link and accept the agreement. It basically states:
- Everybody on your account is using their full email address only to check and send email with their mail client.
- Everybody is only ftping/sshing to your domain, and not a server name directly.
- Nobody on your account is using .procmail or .forward files.
- You don’t have /home/.SOMETHING/username anywhere in your files at all… you should change it to just: /home/username
If you choose to accept, you will be placed in queue to be moved to their new server environment, and will immediately receive unlimited bandwidth and disk space!
Should you choose to register a new Dreamhost account, use promo code JOCH1 to get $40 off on your hosting.
Dreamhost increasing space and transfer
Dreamhost has just upped their transfer to 2TB and the disk space to 200GB for the standard account. All I can say is thank you!
They have also added the username+tag@host like Gmail has, which is a very nice and useful feature. There is now also a files section where people can upload files and keep them permanently.