# Storing Images in the cloud

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-images-in-the-cloud/6779
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [2013 年5 月 21 日 23:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-images-in-the-cloud/6779 "2013-05-21T23:56:32Z")
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### 作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### 发布日期： [2013 年6 月 5 日 22:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-images-in-the-cloud/6779/11 "2013-06-05T22:15:19Z")

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**We are thinking of pulling official Imgur support** , since you’d need a Pro account and entirely different API mechanisms to guarantee your images are still there in a year or two years.

- [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/register/upgrade)
- [http://api.imgur.com/#register](http://api.imgur.com/#register)
- [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://imgur.com/help/images#howlong)

> As long as images are getting at least 1 view per 6 months, they will stick around forever. **If an image does not receive even 1 view in 6 months, it may be removed to make room for new images.** Images on pro accounts will never be removed.

We would rather offer just S3 image hosting support for reliability, and let Imgur support come as a plugin at a later date. The current Imgur code we will leave in the vendor plugins folder as a todo if anyone wants to take it.

Any objections to this?

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