Hosting Account Space Upgrade

[nbakx10m]

Dear Gents,

could I get an space upgrade? I will present my collection of postcards and the space is full.
Thanks

Best Regards

 

[essellar]

First, you'll need to wait until the server migrations are complete at least; until then, nothing is going to be stable enough to mess around with settings.

Second, unless you're doing a significant write-up on each of the cards, they would count as an image gallery, and that means that there will be a 1GB limit even if you have otherwise unmetered space. (And no, a minor annotation wouldn't affect that; you'd need to be using the cards as illustrations to articles about them to make them "content images" rather than "gallery images".)

Third, there are some very good programs/services to significantly shrink the file sizes of both JPEGs and PNGs without visibly affecting quality. I use JPEGmini (a locally-installed program) for JPEGs and TinyPNG (an online service) for PNGs. That will let you significantly expand the number of images you can fit in the same disk space and make your users a lot happier about the download speed and bandwidth.

Fourth, the fronts of postcards tend to be copyrighted images. Unless your collection is antique (so they've become public domain in the USA) or the images are low-resolution images, perhaps with high-rez crops of small parts of the image if necessary, used, again, as illustrations to articles about the postcards (in a way that would inarguably constitute "fair use" under US copyright law) you're not actually free to post them online.

 

[nbakx10m]

Thanks for the fast reply

First, you'll need to wait until the server migrations are complete at least; until then, nothing is going to be stable enough to mess around with settings.

No problem, I can wait some days!

Third, there are some very good programs/services to significantly shrink the file sizes of both JPEGs and PNGs without visibly affecting quality. I use JPEGmini (a locally-installed program) for JPEGs and TinyPNG (an online service) for PNGs. That will let you significantly expand the number of images you can fit in the same disk space and make your users a lot happier about the download speed and bandwidth.

I reduced the size of the pictures from around 4Mb to around 300 kB. Maybe this was not enough.

Fourth, the fronts of postcards tend to be copyrighted images. Unless your collection is antique (so they've become public domain in the USA) or the images are low-resolution images, perhaps with high-rez crops of small parts of the image if necessary, used, again, as illustrations to articles about the postcards (in a way that would inarguably constitute "fair use" under US copyright law) you're not actually free to post them online.

The Postcards are older then 1965 and the cards are from Germany. Postcards before 1965 had an copyright of 25 years. Postcards later then 1965 had an copyright of 70 year. I will not show postcards after 1965 and I think on this reason I am save.

 

[essellar]

As long as you're aware of the copyright issues -- and what matters is the US compliance, since the server is is the US. That makes the cutoff date (assuming no renewal) 1963 for anything bearing a copyright notice (usually on the reverse/written side of the card) and 1978 without notice. (The US was late in adopting automatic rights upon creation.) Keep in mind that copyright compliance here is enforced by fallible humans, so you'll want to have a blurb on your site outlining the rules and your compliance with them (preferably with a link to the applicable law, or at least to a trustworthy site that explains the law in layman's terms).

 

[nbakx10m]

Thanks the additinal General copyright page is a good idea. I will implement this later, in case that I get more space. (After the migration of the server is complete )

 

[hard__d-_-b__style57]

You could use base64 for your images, that way you will use basically 0 space and the images will last forever.

 

[essellar]

You could use base64 for your images, that way you will use basically 0 space and the images will last forever.

Base64 is MUCH bigger than binary, and there is absolutely no difference in durability (other than that large image files will occupy more blocks on disk, and thus be MORE prone to damage). The gallery restriction doesn't specify the file format; an image is an image.