Q:

We have read a good iPage review and have a website hosted there at iPage.com now. For the next step, we need to know what is the best free photo gallery applications to use for our website? What is the best web hosting to host photo gallery applications?

Answer:

Either you are a professional or just blogging for fun, you may want to have your own photo gallery or photo album on your website. Some of the best open source gallery applications are 4images, Gallery and Coppermine.

• 4images Gallery – You create your own online photo gallery on your website using this powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and management, password protected administration area with browser-based upload and HTML templates for page layout and design.
• Gallery – the most popular image gallery script. This open source web based photo album gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site.
• Coppermine Photo Gallery – This is a feature-rich photo gallery script with MySQL database, user management, private galleries, automatic thumbnail creation, film strip, and a template system for customization.

The web hosts below provides support for the above gallery and works best if you are using either 4images, Gallery or Coppermine.

Web Hosting	Price	Disk	Bandwidth	Discounts / Promotions
Inmotion Hosting Best Business WebHost	$3.00	100GB	1000GB	As low as $3 InMotion hosting review
Pronethosting.net Best Windows Hosting	$4.95	Unlimited	Unlimited	30% less coupon code Pronethosting review
Hostgator Best Cheap Reseller Host	$24.95	24GB	250GB	20% Seasonal discount Hostgator review
ICDsoft Best Customer Support	$6.00	1000MB	20GB	upto 70% discount
Fatcow Best Unlimited Hosting	$7.33/mth $3.67/mth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Special 50% discount Fatcow review

There are many free photo sharing services out there. Some of them even give you free digital prints such as provided by online printing services. However, you probably want you gallery images hosted and shared from a real and reliable hosting company, not just at any online photo processing companies. This way, you have full control of your albums, how long you want the photos to be online and identify who can view which photos.