When it comes to hosting your photos online you have several options. Whatever you do you need to be careful if these photos are important to you. A few photographers that we know use Snapfish which is a photo sharing company owned by Hewlett-Packard Company. It’s a fairly easy to use website and you can invite members to view you photos by invitation. Currently over 60 million people have used the service since it’s launch in 2000.

Some people are worried about free photo hosting so they go down that paid route. One concern is that a free photo hosting company could go under and the photos would be lost. That’s an understandable concern when so much time and money go into getting the right photos you don’t want to put them at risk. Some friends on mine use their business web hosting accounts to add their photos to. One of them installed a Coppermine Photo Gallery in a subdirectory of this website so he can share his photos with others. This makes for a low cost solution as most web hosting companies only charge a small monthly fee.