JAlbum is a free cross-platform program that I’ve been using for years, and before I got my Flickr account it was my only way to share digital photos with my family. I had a computer at my house being used to serve up the photos to anyone that requested them, but Flickr was too great of a deal to pass up.
The great thing is that there are more than a hundred skins available that have been created by talented designers. I always preferred the PhotoDawg skin, but the decision was always tough because several of the alternatives were pretty amazing.
Now JAlbum is trying to kick things up a notch by launching their own photo hosting solution. I was pretty excited when I first heard about this, but sadly the plans are pretty restrictive for the price that you pay:
- Free: 30MB storage, 2GB bandwidth
- Premium (€20/year = $29/year): 1GB storage, 10GB bandwidth
- Power User (€100/year = $143/year): 10GB storage, 100GB bandwidth
With Flickr I get unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, and a lot of advanced privacy options all for a mere $25 per year. As you can see JAlbum is not nearly the bargain that Flickr is, but then again with JAlbum you can customize the skin used for displaying your photos.
If you really found yourself wanting to use JAlbum I would just pick up a cheap hosting plan that costs between $4 and $6 per month, in which you would just as easily be able to upload your photos. Sites like Go Daddy offer hosting packages with 100GB of storage and 1,000 GB of bandwidth as low as $6 per month. That comes out to be about half of what JAlbum is charging, and I’m sure you could find cheaper if you look around.
To summarize the JAlbum software still rocks for anyone looking to create a more customized photo gallery, but their hosting plans definitely need to become more affordable.
Source: Mashable
PhotoDawg is nice, but BananAlbum is where it’s at!
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Everyone uses that one though.
I used to use this to resize pictures, but used my own PHP tool for the hosting. Also, I’m guessing you meant GoDaddy will give you 100MB of storage per month for $6, rather than 100GB. That would be far too good an offer methinks.
My Numbers are exactly right.
I linked to the deal in the article if you want to check it out. That’s why I was saying that JAlbum is such a horrible deal.
You can’t honestly believe that Flicker will actually host and serve _unlimited_ amount of data for you without charging more? It’s just that most users don’t use much and if you do they close the account or restrict access to it.
I’ve yet to hear of anyone having that happen to their account. They’ve always been pretty good to me, so I can’t really complain. And I’m currently storing over 6GB of images on there.
I use flickr… but for something special, I like the layout and display capabilities at [tabblo.com.] Tabblo allows you to layout your photos in a style that you choose (within the limits of the interface). My ‘Chicago’ tabblo is much more personal and beautiful because of the layout I created than my flickr ‘Chicago’ set. Tabblo lets the creative juices flow… flickr is just static.
My only problem with tabblo is that they haven’t added a lot more functionality in the year that I’ve been using it. There’s so much more that can be done but they’ve seem to have slowed development to a crawl since being purchased by HP.
Tabblo looks pretty cool with the different layouts they provide. I use Flickr as well, but I think I’ll have to play around with that site. Thanks!