Saying Goodbye to kimages
After a long run, it's the end of the road for kimages. As many of you know, kimages was the image hosting service that I ran. It sparked a great deal of my interest in learning to script in PHP and allowed me to learn a lot about scaling web applications to large audiences.
In the past two years, kimages' user base scaled up immensely to the point where traffic became unmanageable and hosting became very expensive. Without a suitable business strategy for the site, it was bound to fail. After multiple efforts in creating revenue, I've decided to cut my losses and shut down the service.
Hopefully this won't impact the lives of too many users, seeing as though there are many other free image sharing services out there (ex: imgur.com). I can't say I'm too incredibly fond of any of them, but they most certainly get the job done, and perhaps more reliably as well.
As a side-note, I'm sure any returning visitor has noticed, I recently redesigned this site. It's a bit flashier, I suppose. I just needed to see a bit of a change. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay for awhile.
Best summer wishes to all. And be sure to tell me what you think about my new design by tweeting me (@1080degrees).
Permanent Link · Published on May 31st, 2011