Finding Web Hosting For Photographers To Use
If you are looking for web hosting for photographers then you have probably already taken the decision that services like Flickr are not for you if you are looking to showcase and sell a range of your images.
Although Flickr is very good for sharing photographs it does take control away from you. Having your own photographers web hosting account means that you have direct control over your images and their style and placement.
Web hosting for photographers is really not any different from other hosting accounts except that you need to ensure that you have enough storage space, bandwidth and a program to organize and show your images such as 4images Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery or the popular Gallery program.
Usually these programs will require the use of a database such as MySQL, which is actually normally supplied as part of standard hosting packages.
4images Gallery
An Image Gallery system featuring unlimited categories/subcategories, web-based and FTP images upload, auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture, rate a picture, random pictures, extensive administration panel
Coppermine Photo Gallery
Coppermine is a feature rich photo gallery built from a script that is easily customized by developers to your particular requirements.
Features include: categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer.
Gallery
An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.
All of these and more should be available from a quality hosting provider like Hostgator as an add on to an ordinary hosting account so that the cost of web hosting for photographers can be kept to a minimum.
