Image Hosting

Image Hosting

Image Hosting Services allow users to share their photos online through a website mainly for the purpose of allowing other people to view them. Many people use image hosting sites as online storage of their personal and family photos which they can easily share with their relatives and friends. Others utilize these services for their business and commercial needs. Pictures of products they are offering are kept in a server which thereby acts a public photo book that can be accessed by prospective clients simply by clicking on a link, especially if they do not have their own personal website to promote their merchandises.

Most image hosting sites are formatted in user friendly upload interface. Users can choose the image files they want to upload using the browse button. Other image hosting sites allow multiple upload at once instead of solo upload. Clicking the browse button will prompt the user to select the image files by navigating through the folders in his computer to the location of the file. After this, the complete path to the location of the file will appear on the upload bar and the "upload" or "submit" button should be clicked. The images will in turn be stored in the site and will be accessible for viewing by third parties. The images uploaded will also be presented with various link codes such as URL, HTML, IMG codes and even direct links that users may add in their web posts. This is very useful specifically in online market sites where pictures of promoted merchandise are needed to sell them effectively.

Most image hosting sites provide their services for free. Usually they charge users upon upgrading service subscriptions which normally comes with better features and customization perks. Examples of these sites are Picasa, Flickr, PicTiger, Wordpress, TinyPic, ImageShack, Photobucket, Iimmgg, Imgur and Pict.com.