[Silence]

Hey, new member of this forum and first post.
I was wondering, I'm not too happy with the limitations that image galleries have on the net and wanted to hear how someone can create their own website and what options they have.
Could anyone help?

[Debido-San]

so uhh…what exactly do you want to do with this website? Just make an image gallery? What makes you so unhappy with other image galleries? Is it the bandwidth limitations that keep you from seeing more, or what?

[Silence]

IT's the limitations of what is allow to be posted I think. Like "No adult stuff" and such. Others have a unstable server, with people controlling them not being very mature.

[Debido-San]

Ohh, well in that case, mostly all free places won't allow adult stuff, so you'll end up having to buy your own webspace…I've never done it though, so I'm not sure if webspace can be used "however" in the sense of putting adult content on it…

[David C. Matthews]

Even most paid web hosting is very VERY leery of hosting adult material.

Read very carefully (if you can find it; a lot of services love to hide it) the TOS, or Terms Of Service agreement. Most will say they won't host anything "pornographic" because what constitutes "pornography" changes so much from locality to locality, and they don't the law to come down on them wherever someone views a site hosted by them.

On that note, you might want to check out one of this site's own sponsors, DreamHost. I checked out their TOS, and the only thing I found they don't allow (in the "adult material" category; of course they ban such uses as spamming and file piracy, etc.) was child pornography. So my guess is if you don't go too hardcore on them, you won't get any trouble from them. (After all, Amaz0ns is hosted on DreamHost servers, and look what we get away with posting  😀 )

Another guess is that the $7.95/mo. rate is only available if you pay for a year in advance (the way it is with my webhost); $94.50. I think of my website as a hobby; in much the same way some will take up fishing (and the related expenses of tackle, boats, bait, etc.) or comics collecting (and we all know how expensive that can be  😆 ) …heck, for some people I've met $94.50 is a weekend's worth of beer! Well, for my hobby, the web hosting is an expense. (Donations through my Amazon.com Honor System paybox do help defray those costs, so that's something you might want to look into.)

*whew* Didn't mean to get so long-winded about my own situation, but I hope something I've said has been or will be helpful to you.

[Lingster]

You should be able to do everything you want to do with a Drupal installation on a standard virtual hosting plan.  Just make sure the webhost supports PHP and mySQL.  It will probably run you $10/month.

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