Village Photos

[Rossvickicampbell]

does anybody know what has happened to the website  - www.villagephotos.com - - may be time to migrate somewhere else?

thanks

[Freakshow]

use photobucket, everybody else does.  Stable, easy to load and obviously has enough advertising dollars comingin to maintain and keep its servers and your pictures up for a few years more.

[firko]

use photobucket, everybody else does.  Stable, easy to load and obviously has enough advertising dollars comingin to maintain and keep its servers and your pictures up for a few years more.

Not everybody Freaky, I've been using Village for years with no problems or complaints until now. I've been trying to get on since early last week and I was getting a message that they were changing servers and would be down until the first of the month. I notice that there's now a 'Temporarily Unavailable' message up.  Wait until the first of November and see if they return online. If not, I've lost a shitload of easily accessed photos and it's over to Photo Bucket.

[AjayVMX]

I also am a Village Photos customer, but not sure for how long now.  I sent an email to them about the disruption and they did reply saying they were trying to get a new ISP.  But that was several days ago and their website is still "unavailable".

I have a Photobucket account now as well and at some point I will lose patience with Village and terminate my subscription.

What a pain in the a$%^. 

[vmx42]

It must certainly be a right royal pain in the butt, but remember both Village and Photobucket are FREE. So I don't know if loosing patience with them and terminating your sub will have much of an impact [on them] - dollar for dollar you are way out in front with the service they have supplied to date.

Perhaps, like all the young kiddies, you should look to the Clouds.... 

[AjayVMX]

I have a premium account with Village, so losing my business will affect them a little. 

[vmx42]

The you should definitely look to the Clouds...

[firko]

I have a premium account with Village, so losing my business will affect them a little

Me too :'(
Village Photos has missed the "first of the month" promise to be back on line so it's starting to look like they've gone belly-up. I've signed up with Photobucket but it's going to take forever (if ever) to get my photo files up to the thousands that I've probably lost. It's not really such a big deal but I just wish I hadn't just renewed my bloody premium account

[mx250]

............ but it's going to take forever (if ever) to get my photo files up to the thousands that I've probably lost.

Gee I hope not, that would be a loss for all of us .

It would always be prudent to have back up but I'm sure Village will get they act together. It would be hard to image if they didn't.

[firko]

Gee I hope not, that would be a loss for all of us .

I've saved most of my photos on my external hard drive but they're in a pretty haphazard order. On Village I had 'em sorted into specific files, making it pretty easy to put my finger on a particular photo at a couple of minutes notice. As it stands at the moment I have to dig through my shots on the external hard drive, upload them to Photobucket and then download onto the forum or wherever. These days if something takes longer than a couple of minutes I lose interest pretty quickly  .

[firko]

WTF are you talking about Walter ? This has nothing to do with political paranoia, it'a about saving pictures of old bikes, nothing else.....jeez Louise