Is it a good idea to store my digital photos online?

Question

O.K. so i have a photobucket [who doesn't?] , but my question is: Is it better to store your pictures online or on your computer? I thought in case of a disaster, fire or something, that idea might come in handy, but what about privacy, efficiency, quality,and space? If you think it's a good idea let me know. If you do it, let me know. Suggestions for places to store my photos will also be nice! Thanks!

Answer 1

DO save them online as well as burn disks often. I have a flickr account and I can save my pictures as private or public..either way, it has saved my pics through a few crashes and I was thankful that they were out there.  

Answer 2

Our hard drive crashed and we were thankful that we had images saved on line and in an external drive. CD's are also a good idea.

Flicker, dotphoto and kodakgallery are places I have stored images.

Answer 3

Burn them to a disk (dvd/cd) it's by far you best archival option.

Frankly I would (am) very cautios as to what of my work I post on the web. There is NO way to protect against theft, or loss should your server/host be attacked or crashed. Disks are dirt cheap, use em' up and when a new, better storage format comes out, they can be recycled.

Best of Luck !!!

Answer 4

Photobucket is good as long as their server doesn't crash. Then what ?

Burn them on a CD. Much safer and whatever happens, you still have them.