Earlier this year, while in the fast lane (Florida internet connection speeds), I uploaded most of our pictures to my Google Drive, or at least the scaled down versions that I've always had on our website. That's as far as I got, not publishing or publicizing.
I've been gradually moving the various domain names that I own over to Google Domains because my old provider was screwing around with the charges, starting to levy additional charges for nonsensical things like "privacy", i.e. not having domain name ownership visible to the world. What Google was charging $12 per year for, Site5 wanted $29. Ok, so who cares if I've only got one domain name, but I have a half-dozen, since I "own" a few randonneuring domain names as well.
I had assumed (bad assumption) that Google would also do web hosting, but they don't. They offer cloud storage but not web hosting. There are free services that will do the hosting, such as wordpress, assuming that you only need the hosting and not significant cloud storage. My existing setup also doesn't (didn't) allow for "swiping", which is more the norm these days.
So ... as of now, almost all of my online pics are swipeable. There's a shareable link for each year of photos and clicking that link gets you to the shareable drive.
www.wdthompson.com still works but the only thing hosted by Site5 is the html for that index page and the family picture.
Clicking on a year, such as 2018, takes you to a Google Drive shareable link, for example:
From there, you have the pictures. No index is necessary, such as that generated by my old version of Photoshop. I'll still use Photoshop to generate those scaled down versions and upload the scaled down versions. Someday, perhaps, I'll upload the big pictures but that's going to take some time as I've got more than 51,000 photos occupying 212 gb, right now, and growing.
The folders include a few extraneous files generated by Photoshop, e.g. "background.jpg" and a couple of others. When I have some time, I'll delete those.
Before my current hosting contract ends this Fall, I'll get the little stubs over to a free service. I wanted to wait until the Sunshine 1200k was over as that too is on that hosting service. It has no data, only html. The hosting service isn't expensive, only $119.95 per annum as of last year, but it's unnecessary. Now that I have the pictures over to Google Drive, in fact I can delete them from the hosting service and just leave my little html stubbies. I've been using Kompozer to edit html; that too could use some updating.
Onward, Upward and Cloud-ward !
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