My solution to this (though I rarely upload photos for storage on a "free" site) is to basically be my own data server. That is, get yourself a 1 TB portable drive and some backup software, and store your content securely. Then you can selectively upload to "free" sites and have your content there until those sites go belly up or (like photobucket) decide they want to change their policy. But you'll always have the original files.
I have an e-mail account with msn (hotmail) and have some free space there for file uploads and sharing. That's been pretty stable. There's also Google mail and Google drive. But I never take anything for granted.
And there are also devices now like
Lima which enable you to securely access your files anywhere on the internet. This would permit file sharing from a link I suppose (as long as your server was accessible - i.e. powered up).
The fact of the matter is that all of the content we "store" on the internet belongs to whomever pays the bill for the server. Nothing is truly free, and as we've seen time and time again, sites can go down in an instant if the host decides to delete or disable your content (e.g. the Beavis pedal electronics site).
This makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to have a way to back up the content here at Guitar FX Layouts. Perhaps a multi GB archive file that we could download for safe keeping?
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