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Monday, March 29, 2004
Since dotPhoto’s quality seems to have gone down hill in their printing department, I’ve decided to try another image hosting service. I don’t really care about pictures anymore, but I seem to have lucked out with the one I found. They rated second highest in image quality in PC Magazine last month. The hosting service is smugmug and they use ez print for the hard copy.
I like how the service allows you to use your own HTML and CSS to customize the page, so that’ll be neat to set up if I decide to stay with them. I get a seven day trail to see how it goes and if I like it, then I’ll have the fun task of moving the tens of thousands of pix over to them. They don’t use ftp (seems no one really does) and I have to use their drag-n-drop ActiveX component. I’m uploading using it right now and I’m finding that it stutters my typing in this IE window. So, it has a much heavier over head then dotPhoto thus far. It also wouldn’t allow me to upload more then 104MB per session. My upload was 124. so, I have to figure out what’s up with that. That isn’t going to sit well with me…especially when I get my Rebel. 
Looks like upload speed is the same, though.
So, when the upload is done, I’ll share the URL for you here to see the difference. I do like the album’s late out and I think you will too. Hopefully uploading the hundreds of albums for my site and the kids site won’t take more then a month. I’ll have to e-mail smugmug and see if they’ll take a DVD-R via mail. That’ll speed things up.
March 29th, 2004 at 17:47
This might be a bit “retro” for you, but I’ve been 100% pleased with the quality of prints at Costco, and the price is right ($0.19/4×6 print, though rumor has it that the Citrus Heights costco is $0.14). And they do it in one hour.
March 29th, 2004 at 21:25
Not retro at all. The Rasmussen’s have told us about it, too. We’ve been meaning to try it.
That’s why I stated that I didn’t care about printing, but more about hosting. I get enough hits a month that I would go over my bandwidth limit every month if I had it on my webserver…if I even had the room on it. Hopefully that’ll all change when I get the T1 dropped into the office.