It seems to be a growing trend to decentralise your online services nowadays. In particular, everyone is moving away from these self-hosted environments and moving towards popular services such as Flickr and Wordpress, and Live Spaces.
I've only recently set up my own web site. When I started out, I decided using a content management system would be the easiest way to go. I then evaluated a few options and went with Community Server. However, I'm not really happy with CS (at least this version...) as a single user blog and web site platform. As an environment for communities it seems an excellent option, but it's just not for me.
One of the major reasons for this is photo management. It's just too complicated. And, it's not very user friendly for people who want to view them.
So, in an effort to move away from trusting CS with all my online content, I made the decision to use Flickr. I've had an account with them for a long while now, but when I realised that you can purchase a pro account with unlimited storage and bandwidth for under $50/yr I pulled out the credit card.
It wasn't until after I made my purchase I realised that Windows Live Photo Gallery has the option to publish photos directly to Flickr. Woot!
You can find some of my precious memories at www.flickr.com/ducas. Over the next few weeks/months I'll be moving lots of my photos over.
Although, with Microsoft's recent bid to purchase Yahoo! it will be interesting to see what happens to this excellent service.