I have used Fotki for almost 2 years now as my photo gallery site and photo hosting to link to forums and blogs. In these 2 years, I have been mostly happy with Fotki. I thought their service was good, the site has been quite stable and the price for unlimited storage premium account is fair.

However, in the past 2 days, I have suddenly struck by a bitter experience. Due to the popularity of my recent posts on the new Canon 40D, which helped to reach top post and one of the top blogs status at Wordpress.com, my blog has been getting lots of hits and traffic. Unfortunately, it made me realized that Fotki has a daily traffic limit. Fotki would lock your account for the day if you have gone past the daily traffic limit and would only unlock your account the next day.

Obviously, this has caused a lot of trouble for me as I have to move all the photos on my 40D posts to other hosting site (in fact, I have moved them to Wordpress for the moment). However, even though I have moved all the photos on my 40D posts to Wordpress, I still hit over the traffic limit again at Fotki today, probably because of the popularity of my 40D posts have helped to attract visitors to see my other blog posts too and most of these posts have photos hosted at Fotki.

Now, if only I had known in the first place that Fotki