I have a great way StavrosK can offer his image hosting for free, forever. pmoriarty if you would just pay all of StavrosK's hosting bills going forward we can all live in the promised land of free image hosting.
Now that is the gift economy at its finest!
Because I'm a fan of the gift economy. This was the way the Internet used to be when it started. This is the spirit that's common in academia, but has sadly waned once the internet got commercialized and grew out of control.
In that case, please make a free host, I will be your most ardent supporter.
Back in the days of the early internet it wasn't free to host images. You paid for a web host, had your own site, and hosted what you want. But you paid!
I didn't mean free to run your own image hosting site, but free to use.
Like Wikipedia. There are costs to run it, but it's free to use.
Same with public libraries.
Academia is not free
They're still struggling to give away stuff that they've (somewhat implicitly) promised to give away, like their research.