Money
I assumed.
I was thinking smaller. More like an object storage service (S3). In the case a link does go down you could push the image to a new server from storage. That way you wouldn't have to pay for the bandwidth to actually serve each image. Just a thought.
Definitely a good thought. Two problems, your specific example of s3 is a no-no because AWS. To setup my own cheap FS server would be a more cost effective solution; however, it still runs afoul of one detail: the actual files would be stored on pic8's servers, which introduces liability.
(post is archived)