Dreamhost have decided that they don’t want people using their storage space for personal backups, as a few customers were abusing it by uploading DVD rips and gigantic hard disk images. I too have been using it as a backup dump for nearly 40GB of photos, but the new policy states that “files uploaded to your accounts should be provided with the intent of distributing them to others from your hosted sites”. Well, I always intended to distribute them through a photo gallery; I just hadn’t done it yet.

So here’s a beta version of photos.james.lab6.com, despite my disapproval of Gallery2. The permissions interface for Gallery2 is still unusable, so all public viewers can see right now is a few dozen photos of ants. Yummy.