Photobucket two years after

[j3gq_imp]

Sad that so many photos are gone, and of cause I can't bring them back myself.
But as far as I can see, if there was any chance to bring them back this issue needs to be broken down like this :
- do the original posters still have the original photo files ? if yes, can we collect them
- storage is not the problem, bandwidth (for the servers) is, we need an estimate
- free sites can let you down, paid services can - but some are better than others, we need to read the fineprint on many sites, any volunteers ?
- is the community ready to pay 1$ per month per member ? that's prob all it takes
- are smaller pictures okay in most cases ? 100kb for most purposes, 1Mb for some should do the trick ?
- we need "private" backup once every 3 months, who can do this ?
- with under 300k posts, meaning under 100k photos in total, we are talking about 10Gb or even less. It isn't that hard.
- can the moderators find an efficient way to change all the links within the posts DB ?

Or do I miss part of the story or part of the problem ?
Please let me know.