

Or you can actually pay for their awesome service too, what a concept, for $9.99 per month or $100 annually.

And you can get some additional free storage space (up to 16GB), by sharing Dropbox with your friends. You can get a whopping 2GB Dropbox account for FREE. First things first though, you need a Dropbox account. Vimeo on the other hand is ideal for hosting and streaming of your videos in standard or HD quality, but downloading the video requires at a minim a Vimeo Plus account for you and that the person downloading the video creates a free Vimeo account. If you really need more than the 100MB to 1GB of local storage that your SNOWPRO PORTAL™ plans comes with, I recommend Dropbox for hosting any “high resolution” photos you want to share and any video files you want people to be able to download. Now if we did not smush your images on upload, then you’d only be able to store between 30 and 80 images that were shot with your smartphone’s highest quality settings. This is enough to store between 900 and 2,100 full color images in JPEG format that have been “smushed down” (the technical term for optimized for web viewing).

SNOWPRO PORTAL™ plans range from 100MB to 1GB for local storage. So, we are doing our part to be as green as possible by “smushing” your images from massive billboard size quality to “just what you need” for most websites. Since this website is NOT a photographer’s archival site, we don’t need “gigs and gigs” of image data. The more storage we need, the more power and bandwidth we need to maintain and deliver that data. In reality this is actually a “green” issue too, because the more data we store, the more storage we need. This is a growing concern despite the fact that hard drives and disk space are getting cheaper and cheaper by the day. With today’s digital cameras and HD video footage file sizes are getting bigger.
