photo hosting

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Photo hosting is where you serve photos and other images on the internet, typically for photo posts and other kinds of posts with photos.

Photo hosting is one step of many for creating and maintaining a photo post, in roughly this order but sometimes with steps combined or re-ordered:

photo capture — the act of taking a photo on a camera or mobile phone
photo editing — editing a photo, often on a local device, often before uploading
photo upload - sending a photo from a local device to some place on the internet
photo storage - where you store photos that are uploaded, perhaps longterm, and backups
photo hosting - where you serve photos displayed in posts

For UIs to create a photo post, see:

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There are some folks that directly host photos from their personal server, and others use shared servers, or even silo CDNs to host photos

Mike Kupietz is using Flickr as a CDN in WordPress photo posts
- gist shared in #dev channel: https://gist.github.com/kupietools/c45a07aef7888e47a13097b6b8966ee5
Tantek Çelik is using and moving towards more use of Flickr as a CDN, and has used a mix of Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare/Swarm in the past (most of which eventually broke).
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You can also host your photo files on various silos, as part of your photo post infrastructure.