: Which service for storage and public hosting of image files I have been searching this for hours and every services I found have limitations or cost that do not work for me. My quest is simple.

@Martha676

Amazon S3 is for sure one of the most widely adopted solutions in this case. It scales very well, you can upload as many objects you want. However it can become quite pricey especially if you have a large traffic. In fact, they charge you for storage but also for data transfer.

In your case it may be worth to consider Dropbox either Pro or Business. Dropbox Pro costs only up to 100Gb with no data transfer.

In Dropbox you can share a file or folder and make it available publicly. You can use their API to upload a file and the initial upload can also happen using their client from your machine. The default URL for public files in Dropbox is
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/user_id/file

however you can easily remap the URL with a custom domain to get
yourhostname.com/u/152412/file

or even (with a super simple proxy)
yourhostname.com/file

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@Courtney195

Actually, there is no real unlimited hosting. Hosting companies just say unlimited, but it's very limited in practice.

If it's about 100GB, I think getting a VPS would be cost effective for you. Look for a plan with HDD of above 100GB and the other resources like RAM and CPU could be very low.

You have full control over your server with root access so that you can add any desired upload method.

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