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Hosting specifically designed for the purpose of serving images.

The benefits of using Image hosts is often they offer free or affordable storage of your images that can be served to your site visitors - directly from your image hosting account. Some providers use cookie-less hosting as well as them being served from a separate domain name means that a website can render faster due to parallel downloading of page requests.

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Images in blog posts

I see a lot of blogs (coding horror for example) that seem to feature random pictures in the entries. Would I be correct in saying they probably didn't seek permission to use those images? What are the rules around this? Can I use any image I want…
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Effect on SEO if I keep images in different domain?

This question is related to another question that I asked earier: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22558410/how-to-not-send-a-cookie-to-a-subdomain. It seems like, I have to put all my images to another domain. My site is an image sharing site…
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How long to Retain Newsletter Images?

We are sending out some 50 variants of newsletters everyday to customers and all the images used are stored on AWS infrastructure. Since we pay for every kilobyte stored on AWS, we want to delete the older images that people might not look at…
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Is is okay to use press kit images with attribution in my personal blog?

First up, not sure if this question is correct at WebMasters kindly redirect if it's not. I have a personal (non-commercial) blog where I write about technology and programming etc. I was wondering if I could use Official presskit images for example…
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Images on a subdomain, hosted on the same server — will simultaneous downloads increase? (CDN)

Browsers only allow you to download a limited number of concurrent files from the same domain. Would a subdomain for images (basically as a content delivery network) on the same web hosting server increase the number of files that can be downloaded…
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Image hotlinking providers?

I use a lot of images in my wordpress and due to hosting restrictions I need to host the images somewhere else and hotlink them in my blog posts. So I am looking for some reliable image host which provides free hotlinking service. The Google Picasa…
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Receive anonymous users' input by web upload form or email. Any online service for that?

Are you aware of any online service or online "platform" allowing users, not previously registered, to upload pairs of picture+comment to a database? It would be a collaborative database of picture+comment pairs. I'm not going wiki or googlegroup,…
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Stop any search engine from indexing/crawling images in a dedicated folder in wp

How can I prevent a dedicated image folder from crawling/indexing by any search bot? Like Google search or image or Bing search/image bot? I would like to give that folder name as /donotindex/ here will be all image that I will upload for users…
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Can WordPress plugins W3 Cache, Autoptimize, Stackpath CDN, and Shortpixel be used together?

I'm trying to combine some WordPress plugins to speed up my websites. Can I use W3 Cache Autoptimize a CDN with Stackpath, Shortpixel Image Optimization together at the same time? Are there any settings within each plugin that need to be adapted…
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Using shortened URLs instead of direct links on media hosting - will this affect site performance?

I'm working on a site project right now and I have a ton of image assets that are hosted on firebase storage - which is effectively a CDN hosting media on SSD's globally. When referencing the media on the site, however, I can use the firebase link…
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Which image sharing websites supports file uploading dynamically via api

I have been searching for image hosting website that displays images of a user in a nice and managed way. I want to upload the files to that image hosting website in my account of that website from a page in my website. i.e if i have a website…
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Allow/Make search engine to index images hosted on third party

I have my personal blog website and using Dropbox to host images (through public folders) and use them in my blog website. Is their any way to index those images in search engine like Google. I have created an image sitemap which contains URLs of…
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Is PhotoBucket a viable solution to host a website's photo galleries

I'm currently working with a lot of photographers and will probably be picking up development on a professional photography site soon. With that in mind, and I can't stop thinking about a way I can implement a user-friendly photo gallery hosting…
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Blurred images on Windows

My website shows beautiful figures for normal displays. However, as in Windows 10, when the scale and layout is set to 125% or higher, the images are blurred for the visitors. Is there something I can do on my side that can show the figures without…
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Content Security Policy error when trying to share images from Google Drive on my website

I'm using Google Drive to upload my images, so my images' URL in my website are like this: In my local computer it's working well, but in my VPS it's not working, I'm…
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