Hosting images for newsletter. Where?
Hello everyone,
I was wondering where do you guys host your images.
I am rebranding my newsletter and and even moved to emailoctopus.. but they don't host.
I was thinking.
- Github
- Drop Box
Not in Amazon,I don't like them.
Any suggestion?
If it is fine?
Edit:
I went with Cloudinary.com
FilePost works well for this use case. You can upload newsletter images through the API and get permanent CDN URLs back, so you do not have to worry about links expiring later.
Everything is served through Cloudflare as well, which helps if your audience is spread out geographically.
I've been using imgur.com for blog images. They make upload and manage images easy
In some sources[*], they mention the images are kept forever
But they are public right?
Yes, they are. After uploading, you can right-click and get the direct photo URL
Ahh ok.
I will have a look to them. Thanks again Hienuc.
I would recommend cloudinary (image hosting cdn)
The free tier is enough in most of case
Hey Tim,
I actually signed up last night. And I started to use it now.
Really easy and its a pretty generous free tier.
I am in.
Thank you.
What a coincidence. I am currently building something to host images with full edit features, EleBucket.com
Let me know if you like to see any specific feature.
Can't connect.
I am building a super simple and cheap image hosting service which is a kind of competitor for imgur but for commercial use(imgur become very restrictive recently, and not ideal for commercial products).
EleBucket is simple image sharing service with option to edit image and share instantly. Also its a usage base pricing instead of monthly payment. So its going to be super cheap. I will send you invitation email once its in beta mode.
You can use Backblaze B2 along with CloudFlare to create a free CDN with custom domain: https://medium.com/@danrovito/creating-a-cdn-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-for-free-2f7a3efa0c1
For a more advanced setup with a cleaner URL structure you can also use CloudFlare Workers: https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/
Never heard, I will deffinately have a look to them.
That looked pretty easy.
Thank you
You have disqualified the cheapest and easiest option because "I don't like them". S3 is dirt cheap and built for this.
I don't them simply....but thank you.
How are you putting these images in your newsletter? I use emailoctopus too and I can just drag and drop images into the editor.
I am coding the template myself, and I want to have access to them...
Oh you mean static images. I usually just dump them in my github repo which is linked to netlify. Basically I upload my images to my webhosting and link them to my newsletter.
You kean as website? I I thoug they recommend not to do that?
Who recommended that? If you can't host static assets on your hosting provider then that's not a hosting provider.
I readed something ages ago on their site
Netlify
I thought it was not recommended.
I once spoke to them regarding this and they said no, only websites.. no individual file sharing.
See, I knew it...i readed that somewhere..