Quote Originally Posted by Qwin View Post
It's not so much about loosing the photographs Grant, I have my website backed up and all my pictures on another device for extra peace of mind.

It's about loosing the definitive path to your picture, when storing it on one of the sites like Photobucket. If anything changes in this path, the picture will not appear on AoS and unless editing privileges are altered, you can not change the original posting to point at its new location. I have many illustrated postings on many sites, covering a variety of topics (couple of thousand), it would be very time consuming to alter the paths for all these pictures, so I keep complete control by hosting them on my own site and trust no one else with the task.
yes, i considered that. you mentioned it before, and its not as pricey as i thought it would be, but i dont post much these days so didnt bother. if i were doing it all again i would do that tho.