apocryph.org

I’m finally moving apocryph.org over to FutureHosting from DreamHost. I’ve put it off for so long because my 35+GB photo gallery will be a real pain to move over, and will use most of the 40GB of storage I have allotted on one of my two VPS accounts.

I really wanted to move my photo hosting to Picasa Web Albums, on account of the awesome new face detection/recognition feature they have in beta, but in the end I was swayed by value.

Here’s the price schedule for Picasa Web Albums:

• 10 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
• 40 GB ($75.00 USD per year)
• 150 GB ($250.00 USD per year)
• 400 GB ($500.00 USD per year)

Here’s the schedule for Flickr:

• Unlimited ($24.95/yr)

Since I’m almost at 40GB, inside of a year I would be spending $250/yr for Picasa storage. Sorry, but face recognition coolness isn’t worth that sort of a premium.

I’m currently in the process of migrating my entire gallery over to Flickr using the Gallery2Flickr plug-in for Gallery 2. It’s slow going; I’ll have a separate post about the jigger-pokery required to make that work. Once I’m done, I’ll use my Gallery 2 install solely for hosting photos for my family, which is a small enough dataset that I can fit it on my VPS without difficulty.

Tags: flickr, gallery, gallery2, gallery2flickr, Migrated from Drupal, tech diary

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