Flickr Pro

I just signed up for a Flickr Pro 2yr account - and I must say, its totally worth it. Flickr has a developer API that you can use to integrate Flickr services to your website. The only condition when hotlinking your own flickr photo onto your website is your page should have a link back to flickr.com. Interestingly, even for a commercial license, the API is free - unless the usage is very heavy. The reason for buying the pro account, is because they don't have a limit to their space and bandwidth usage, though the maximum upload transfer per month is limited to 2GB. The download transfer is unlimited. This is ideal for amateur photographers who on the practial side, are not going to to be uploading more than 2GB of photos per month - unless the new Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II's price comes down drastically ! For the average person, a 6MP camera is currently affordable. For a 6MP camera, the photo size ranges from 2MB to 2.5MB - which averages to 1000 photos upload per month. This should be just enough for a month for the average user. Here are some free Photo Hosting Sites :

Host	Max Server Space	Max Size per photo	Monthly Bandwidth	Direct Linking
flickr	No Limit	Auto-Resized to various sizes	100MB
zooomr	No Limit	Auto-Resized to various sizes	100MB
PicasaWeb	250MB	Auto-Resized	No Limit
Y! Photos	No Limit	Auto-Resized	No Limit	-
Photo Bucket	1GB	1MB	10GB
Webshots	No Limit	No Limit	No Limit
Village Photos	12.5MB	250KB	1GB	-
Sony Imagestation	No Limit for the first 12 months	No Limit	No Limit
MSN Spaces	30MB	No Limit	No Limit