If you are a hobbyist or semipro website owner then you don’t want to spend money on bandwidth that you can save for other things like pizza.  Even large website businesses are turning to remote hosting of their bandwidth intensive images and videos to reduce load and offer another source of revenue.

Sites that offer video or image hosting often require membership.

If you want to store your files you need to signup and then uploading files means you need to login.

This is one of TinyPics best features. The files that you upload are anonymous and require no membership.

If you place images on their site you can link to them either directly for placement within your pages or you can use their site url to offer other options.

Videos are placed in a flv player that is branded but they are easy to embed within your site.

Recently they have started to offer other value added image processing options that can stylize and add interest to your images. These products are placed on your pages with a flash player.

So what are the drawbacks?

Once you upload a picture or video it is there for as long as tinypic hosts the file which is usually about a year. This means you can’t delete it but it also means they reserve the right to delete files when they see fit…. so don’t depend on TinyPic to host your primary website layout files.

Also Video files are comressed to reduce file size. This means that the quality of the video won’t match the original and it may not be as good as services provided by other websites. The best thing to do is give it a test and see if it lives up to your needs. More then likely it will.

TinyPic.com is a quick and easy way to get your files online and it is a resource that you should keep in your bag of tricks.

www.tinypic.com