P'bucket: bandwidth limit vs. storage

[Ace-Garageguy]

Sokay, my storage on the P site is only 17% full, but I'm getting messages on my email that say basically "OMG, YOU'RE APPROACHING YOUR BANDWIDTH LIMIT !! SEND MONEY FOR MORE !!!!"

So is this "approaching" kinda like I've been approaching the upper limit ever since I posted the first photo, kinda like everyone is approaching death from the moment of conception, and they're just trying to freak me into spending money I really don't have to ???

PS. All I use the P site for is cars and models, so I hope "General" is the correct posting venue.

Edited July 21, 2013 by Ace-Garageguy

[Quick GMC]

I ditched Photobucket years ago. IMO it is one of the worst photo sharing sites out there. It takes forever to load photos.

I use Imgur now. Very simplified, no BS. You can upload a quickie and share it without logging in and adding it to your album or photos. It will float around in the Imgur cloud, forever lost, unless you save the URL. Or you can have albums and all that neat stuff. You can set the picture size so as it uploads it automatically re-sizes the photos. Lats time I was on PB they didn't have that, not sure now.

[Harry P.]

If you're at 17% capacity, you may be "approaching" your limit, but you still have a loooooong way to go before you get there.

I ditched Photobucket years ago. IMO it is one of the worst photo sharing sites out there. It takes forever to load photos.

I don't know which PB you used, but it takes about 5 seconds for me to upload a photo.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Never mind. Storage is storage, and it'll be a LONG time before I'm at 100% (as per Harry).

Bandwidth is a completely different issue and it resets every month to zero. I'm using 7.5 gigs of bandwidth monthly, of the available free-account limit of 10 gigs.

Now we know. Two entirely different concepts, no problem with either.

Edited July 21, 2013 by Ace-Garageguy

[Mercman]

If you're at 17% capacity, you may be "approaching" your limit, but you still have a loooooong way to go before you get there.

I don't know which PB you used, but it takes about 5 seconds for me to upload a photo.

I'm with Harry on this one. I have no problems with it.

[MAGNUM4342]

Ditto. If loading pics takes too long it might be a comp issue. Like most folks I have had slight problems using PB but they are usually on top of it and the issue goes away in a day or two. Patience young Padawan.

[Ace-Garageguy]

I have no significant gripes with P'bucket these days, no upload problems, or anything else.

I was asking whether bandwidth usage as defined by P'bucket was cumulative, but I dug deeper and found it resets to zero every month. If my pictures get 33% more traffic, I'll exceed the monthly bandwidth limit for the free account.

No need to spend $ at this time.

[Jouko]

I'm with Harry on this one. I have no problems with it.

Same here. No problem at all. Ten pics (2048 x 1536) uploaded in a few seconds.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Same here. No problem at all. Ten pics (2048 x 1536) uploaded in a few seconds.

None of the responses address the actual question I posted.

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The answer is: Storage is a separate thing from bandwidth. Your storage and limit can be seen by looking at your account information.

Bandwidth resets to zero monthly, and is a function of how much traffic your photos have. At 75%, the "Approaching Bandwidth Limit" warnings can be ignored.

Edited July 21, 2013 by Ace-Garageguy

[MAGNUM4342]

None of the responses, other than mine, address the actual question I posted.

Sorry Bill, got caught up on the other issue. I have had the same message. It's just a scare tactic to chase you into a premium account. I would just ignore it or open a secondary account.

[kalbert]

Bandwidth and storage space are not the same thing. In a nut shell, storage space is the disk space used to hold your image files and bandwidth is the amount of data transferred each time someone views one. If you gad a 1mb file that was transferred over the Internet by 5 people, you would be using 1mb of storage space and 1mb*5 downloads of bandwidth (5mb). Bandwidth is really the wrong word for it but its the industry accepted one. That's how they are able to offer 1TB of storage "free", they charge you based on the amount of data transferred. When you reach your bandwidth limit for the month they limit your image's availability.

Edited July 21, 2013 by kalbert

[Harry P.]

All of my PB albums are "private," only I can view them. I use PB to store my photos only, no lookie lookie allowed unless I upload a photo elsewhere that I want someone to see. So no issues with bandwidth for me...

[ScaleDale]

High bandwidth usage would mean that there is a lot of data coming and going in an account. Either uploading files or other people visiting and downloading them. It has nothing to do with storage space but it can slow a service down. I'm not sure how PhotoBucket works with this, but in a lot of my on-line research I've found car pics that opened someone's PhotoBucket account and allowed me to view and download chassis pics and stuff like that. Not sure what they intended.

PhotoBucket has a bad rap from the Digital Photography forums that I follow and I no longer use it for anything. My model pics are on ImageShack as a free account and my other photography is on a Flickr Pro.

When I get past my eye surgery I'll put together a tutorial on using ImageShack and Flickr as alternatives to PB.

Dale

[Harry P.]

High bandwidth usage would mean that there is a lot of data coming and going in an account. Either uploading files or other people visiting and downloading them. It has nothing to do with storage space but it can slow a service down. I'm not sure how PhotoBucket works with this, but in a lot of my on-line research I've found car pics that opened someone's PhotoBucket account and allowed me to view and download chassis pics and stuff like that.

It's all in how you set your preferences. PB lets you make your albums "public" or "private."

[Ace-Garageguy]

It's all in how you set your preferences. PB lets you make your albums "public" or "private."

Well then...follow up question. If the albums are set to "private", will photos still show up here?

[ScaleDale]

It's all in how you set your preferences. PB lets you make your albums "public" or "private."

If an album is Private and the link is posted here can someone other than the owner (me) see it?

Dale

Ace: Faster by 1.00 sec...

Edited July 21, 2013 by ScaleDale

[ScaleDale]

Testing that theory. Can anyone see the Cunningham car?

http://imageshack.us/a/img211/391/0l69.jpg

^^just the link

Since it's marked Private, anyone should be able to see the image, but only I should be able to see it by clicking the link. This is on ImageShack, but the process is the same. It's marked Private.

Edited July 21, 2013 by ScaleDale

[Harry P.]

Yes. See the photo... and the link also takes you to the photo opening in another window. But only to that photo, not to the album.

[Harry P.]

Well then...follow up question. If the albums are set to "private", will photos still show up here?

Yes. You can upload from a "private" album and the photo will show up here.

[ScaleDale]

How about this? It's not marked Private.

http://imageshack.us/a/img28/271/larrymorganps.jpg

Here's one on PhotoBucket that's not Private.

http://i1298.photobucket.com/albums/ag43/ScaleDale/TheBurkholderBrosFuelFiatblazesthehidesPhotofromtheDragRacingMemoriesCollection_zpsbdb8e4f9.jpg

Dale

EDIT: All of the photos I posted using the forum Image button give a save option in the window that opens when you click it. the links don't. Saving an image from an outside host would trip the bandwidth counter that started this thread in the firs place.

Edited July 21, 2013 by ScaleDale

[Quick GMC]

If you're at 17% capacity, you may be "approaching" your limit, but you still have a loooooong way to go before you get there.

I don't know which PB you used, but it takes about 5 seconds for me to upload a photo.

I am usually uploading 100mb or more at a time and it always times out or misses several or something. My upload speed is 30mb/s with what I have. For a few pictures at a time it's fine. Maybe it's just me. I haven;t had any issues since I left PB.

[highway]

If you are having problems with exceeding the bandwidth limit, just do what I did, open up another account! I have two free accounts, under different emails, and if I start getting close on bandwidth, I use the other account.

[Tom Geiger]

If you are having problems with exceeding the bandwidth limit, just do what I did, open up another account! I have two free accounts, under different emails, and if I start getting close on bandwidth, I use the other account.

Sounds like a pain in the neck. I use Fotki and have two paid accounts. One is my personal stuff and the other one is my club's site. Both are paid up for the next several years. To get one year of the premium account, it's around $20. and it drops down to $15 a year when you subscribe for multiple years. I dunno, for $20 a year, it's not worth the hassle of trying to get it for free. I have unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth. I have thousands of photos in albums.

[highway]

Sounds like a pain in the neck. I use Fotki and have two paid accounts.

Not a pain in the neck at all for an organized person such as myself, and there are some of us who don't have the means to pay for something that you can use free.

[martinfan5]

If you are having problems with exceeding the bandwidth limit, just do what I did, open up another account! I have two free accounts, under different emails, and if I start getting close on bandwidth, I use the other account.

I have three lol, and one Marty and my self share for the club pics