What are /r/imguralternatives' favorite Products & Services?

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For anybody who is reading this, that's the owner of a pretty amateurish, fly-by-night image hosting website:

https://www.reddit.com/r/imguralternatives/comments/7nw6jo/boringhost_a_simple_effective_image_host/

https://www.imagesocket.com/g/Oa6Y

Just a heads up for anybody shopping around, the owner of this website legitimately attacked our business with ridiculously unprofessional comments:

https://www.reddit.com/r/imguralternatives/comments/8k1zy1/is_there_any_uncompressed_image_hosting_service/e1661xy/?context=3

https://www.imagesocket.com/g/Oa6Y

You can have a look at https://imgpile.com * No restrictions (except 50MB/image limit)

• 100% data backup and redundancy
• NSFW allowed if you mark them as "Not safe for Family"
• You can upload large images if they're not bigger than 2-3MB/pic. The real problem lies within the browser itself, they crash. It has nothing to do with the website.
• SSL encrption support
• Unlimited free storage
  
• Personal Private Albums and Privacy Settings
  
• Fast HTML5 Uploader (No flash required)
• Image Sharing with Embed codes and social media
• Unlimited Album Creations
• Multiple Image uploads
• Clipboard Uploads
• Automatically Expirable Images (Can be set by registered users)
• NSFW Flags
• Multiple Language (We support 26 languages and more to come)
• No Exif data strip down on upload

Also interesting alternative is https://imgbb.com/

Supports autodelete (expiration) options:

• After 5 minutes • After 15 minutes • After 30 minutes • After 1 hour • After 2 hours • After 6 hours • After 12 hours • After 1 day • After 2 days • After 3 days • After 1 week • After 2 weeks • After 1 month • Don't autodelete

They're not clones. Most of them are using script called "chevereto". You can check their website. It is a image hosting program. As with any script, some use right environment and have actual knowledge of how to setup proper infrastructure to host large amount of data and scale it with demand. Others are not that great, they use shared hosts, or cheap infrastructure setup, which is good if you're hosting it for your personal usage, but not robust enough to serve contents for thousands of users who will be using your service.

I am a devops engineer by profession. It is my job to build and design infrastructure that can scale to serve any amount of request on demand.

In a nutshell, yes, most of them are basically the same, at least feature/function wise, but it is underlying infrastructure that sets them apart.

Take https://imgbb.com for example. They're my favourite chevereto based website. Even better than mine in some aspects. You can check them out too. But I am proud of my website https://lensdump.com, and don't shy away from recommending it to others.

An API gives you programmer access to upload files or manage albums and pictures.
It's good if you want to tinker, or give an external app access to upload pictures for you. You could access it in any language you'd like or write a plugin for an existing app to use it.

ShareX is a popular app that a lot of folks use that would need an API to have access.

Yes, you can sort it in any order. There are tab for most viewed, oldest, most liked etc.

Edit: Here's an example of the same album sorted as "Most Viewed" - https://imgpile.com/album/nqcx/?sort=views_desc&page=1

You just have to "right click > Copy link address" on any preferred "sorting tab" and share it.