Does Hostmonter support image hosting?

[gmchun83]

Hai,
I really want to signup with hostmonster but i was scare that i may buy wrong packages again.
I want to create image hosting website like photobucket,hotlinkimage,imagevenue and picfoco which allow people to upload image and share through internet.


Does anyone run any image hosting script at hostmonster before?Or anyone that have image hosting website hosted at hostmonster?

Regards,
Wallace

[shadmego]

I seriously doubt it. Hostmonster is very strict on their processor usage and image hosting would require resizing and other image manipulation scripts running that will hog server resources.

If you want to run anything other than a simple photo gallery I do not think that Hostmonster would be the place to host. You may require a virtual private or fully dedicated server to handle what you want to create.

[mmonsen]

Another big reason why these types of services don't work well with hostmonster is that people will abuse the service and will upload images that are against the terms of service. To run or maintain a service like photobucket requires multiple dedicated servers and a lot of man power to moderate and make sure things are running smoothly.

If you are using this for a small group of people and are limiting what is being uploaded then it may work. However if you want to become something larger you would need to look into dedicated hosting.