Imagehost Problems, Imagebam, Imagevenue, PimpAndHost, PixHost, ImgBox etc

[cuzzyman927]

Originally Posted by cuzzyman927

Info: Saturday afternoon ... I was going along quite well for a time and then all of a sudden out of the blue I began receiving that frustrating "dir not found" message.
I must say that it follows a pattern --mornings, afternoons, and nights.

If anyone is familiar with Hotflick I wonder if they could please let us know, or venture a guess, as to why that issue keeps cropping up.

Further Update: It is now Saturday night and Hotflick is still "down" for me. The problem seems to have gotten worse -- images won't even upload now despite going through the motions.
When all is operating properly you will see the word "Complete" in each of the uploaded images boxes signifying that the image successfully uploaded ... but now following each image upload attempt I am seeing the upload boxes highlighting in red and with the words "Bad Request" also in red, and then of course followed by that familiar "dir not found" message! I attempted to upload those same images with another host and they uploaded perfectly, so there is nothing wrong with the images.

I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that Hotflick is minor league and they cannot play ball with the big boys! I think the sudden influx of material/images from people around the world has overwhelmed and blown their servers through the roof and are now orbiting the planet in outer space at 4000 MPH!

[HeinBollo]

We are ongoing maintenance to improve reliability & stability, Uploads & all other site features will soon be available.

Sincerely,
The Team

So what do you think about this news ?

[Thorgrim]

Originally Posted by HeinBollo

We are ongoing maintenance to improve reliability & stability, Uploads & all other site features will soon be available.

Sincerely,
The Team

So what do you think about this news ?

I think they will coming back.Like imagebox.
At Planetsuzy imagebox was removed from the Allowed file host list and now they are back on it.
I have already stoped replacing my imagebam images with other hosts.

[pferdewurst]

So it was an april fool?

[Thorgrim]

Originally Posted by pferdewurst

So it was an april fool?

A very bad one.

[Sam Spade]

Originally Posted by pferdewurst

So it was an april fool?

I guess we will all find out on the 1st July.

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by pferdewurst

So it was an april fool?

If I am remembering the time line correctly, at the time ImageBam and ImageBox announced they were going to shut down they were still indirectly defendants in a copyright infringement lawsuit. The judge in the case has since thrown out the charges/motions against them, effectively removing them from the suit. They may have decided that since they are no longer under legal threat they don't have to shut down.

[pferdewurst]

Meanwhile at Imagebam Headquarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYN0chFJp8

[Ace1965]

Originally Posted by Sam Spade

I guess we will all find out on the 1st July.

I'm not waiting around to find out. I'm still trying to find and save everything I can.

[retroanalyst]

Originally Posted by retroanalyst

By trial and error I found out that the maximum size of an upload seems to be ~100 MiB: a picture set with 99 MiB was accepted, one with 109 MiB failed with the above error. Larger galleries cannot be created by uploading files with a browser.

I suspect it is possible to create larger galleries by using the Pixhost API for them, using your own upload tool. But the question is whether the .zip download of such galleries succeeds, or if it also fails with a 413 error.

To test that, I have written a little upload script. It uploaded said 109 MiB set just fine, and I received it back with the .zip download.