I am sure that everyone here is now fully aware of Photobucket trying to charge $400 USD/around £310 for the ability to link images to external sites and I, along with thousands and thousands of thier 100 million customers are angry and have accused them of blackmail and extortion, I have too, as that is effectively what it is. This my own opinion, expressed under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998 and does not reflect the views of phpBB, it's staff or its users.
I am in a little bit of a pickle...
I was until this farce started last night for me hosting our avatar gallery on photobucket and linking it on our boards so that users could select an avatar from there to use on thier profile, in order to save i nodes and hosting space because I actually do have a limit, I am trying to store that gallery in perhaps a dedicated single folder outside of the domain name, say on a sub-domain so that I only have one copy of them and as on Photobucket, I am trying to have one copy so that I don't have to go through every domain hosted on my server and update all of them using many times the i nodes I would other wise. That's what I liked about Photobucket, I could create a folder, with folders inside to separate the various categories for the different types of avatars that I had in my gallery.
I am not sure how to do this, so could someone try and come up with a way for doing this please? I would appreciate it a lot.
I have set up a sub-domain for every domain I own on my hosting account that are all similar to this:
http://assets.phpbb.com
as an example. They all lead to a single folder on my hosting account called... well... "assets" which is where I am wanting to put everything that is custom, like embedded images and all that. It means that if I end up having the same image on more than one site, I wont need more than one copy of it for each domain, the same applies with my avatar gallery. I know this may not have been thought of before, but for me, I like everything "in it's place", easy to find where I don't have to search for a file all over my hosting account.Thanks in advance.