I migrated the church photos from Flickr to our very own photo gallery.
Why ?
1. Flickr costs money
There is a free option but there are limitations and the long term option costs money
2. Flickr is an external host
That means less flexibility in managing the photos.
Being on flickr also means that there is a wider audience which is not the intention of the church photo gallery. It’s not written, but my intention for the photo gallery is for church members and other visitors to the church website.
3. Cost
When I initially put up the gallery on Yahoo Photos, I did so to save costs. Yahoo Photos was free and offered unlimited storage. Yahoo Photos subsequently closed and offered migration to Flickr which I accepted. As mentioned above, Flickr is not free. The other cost was bandwidth. I had initial fears that members’ enthusiastic viewing of the gallery would use a lot of bandwidth. My fears are unfounded – our current hosting plan has more than sufficient bandwidth, I don’t remember how much but I have never once received warning that the website is consuming too much bandwidth.
The new gallery has almost the same great essential features for a photo sharing site:
1. comments – you can share your comments about the pictures
2. view as slideshow – if you are just browsing for yourself
3. easy upload (not relevant to most, but very relevant to the web administrator)
So head along to photo gallery and check it out.