Moving the blog images from Flickr to Digital Ocean Spaces
In this blog we have been using Flickr as our main images repository since 2008. We even paid for a pro account for a couple of years back in 2015 and 2016, however I can’t recall the benefits of a pro account versus the free one.
Our experience with Flickr has been always very positive and never had an issue with them, but after the acquisition of Flickr by SmugMug , they recently changed the policies, and they announced that the free accounts will be limited to 1,000 images, the rest will be removed. In Cyberhades we have exactly 3,997 images in Flickr, so if we want to maintain all these images we need to pay for a pro account, which is around $50 a year or $6 a month. The Flickr pro account offer more than just unlimited number of images, and if you are a photographer you may benefit from these other perks, but in our case, besides de CDN we are not getting any benefit.