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lausbd
Explorer | Level 3
3 months ago

Solved - Are links persistent? Looking to use Dropbox to host images

Hi community, hope you are doing great!   I'm looking to use dropbox to store images for a website.   In the past working with google and other services, links started to change weekly making i...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    3 months ago
    lausbd wrote:

    I'm looking to use dropbox to store images for a website.

    Don't do this. Dropbox isn't designed to be a web host and you will run in to problems, eventually. Use a proper image host for this.

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Walter
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3 months ago

Hey @lausbd - thanks for using Dropbox and posting on our Community!

 

Shared links you'll be generating for the files you'd like to host on your website most likely won't change, but might generate excessive traffic which could in turn lead to a ban of your sharing capabilities. 

 

I hope this helps a tad. 

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    lausbd
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 months ago

    This "Ban" is includded when the link is only tagged on an html tag such as an <img src="">?

    The objective is just to display, not to download massively. I would like to know about and the Ban post you linked does not mention it, or if it does, is not clear for me.

    This is for a website with 10 to 1000 visits per day, but not focussed on downloading, just to display for example a background image... or a blog hero banner.

    Thank you in advance for your response. ❤️ 

    • Jay's avatar
      Jay
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      3 months ago

      Hi @lausbd, any time a shared link is accessed, viewed or downloaded would count towards the daily bandwidth and download limit. Depending on how your system is set up, it may or may not access the link frequently.

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