What Will Happen to Steemit if Hosting Services Will Shut Down (such as imgsafe.org)?

in steemit •  7 years ago  (edited)

Hi fellow Steemians,

When I began using Steemit I realized that having images was super important. Basically no image, no blog views. 

So, earlier this week I was using imgsafe.com for all my posts and everything worked fine. Then, all of a sudden I could no longer use https://imgsafe.org/. The image would just not upload into the blog post, it was just chewing...

However, I changed to https://postimage.io/ and that one worked just as fine and now I am only using Postimage.io

But this got me thinking, what would happen if postimage.io or imgsafe.com went out of business? From what I understand, all images on Steemit are hosted on sites such as those. 

So, would all images just disappear from Steemit or is there a back-up plan for this? 

Bonus question, do you know why imgsafe.com just stopped working?

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wow never thought about that, good question. images play a big role, so if they disappear, this would hurt the author

true, it would hurt the author and the whole network itself. Imagine if 30% are using one of the big ones such as www.imgsafe.com, that would not be a pretty picture...

same @jimjam1210 ^^'

@freeforeveri hope it doesnt happen