MAS directed me to this post, and I have a quick question. I’m working on a new site for my new company, and we’re going to eventually host a lot of images from events. The thing is, we need to be able to organize them into galleries, etc. I have used SmugMug for years, but can’t find any decent way to incorporate those galleries into a WordPress site.

However, I did find a pretty slick plugin called NextGEN Gallery that allows one to make galleries inside of WP, manage them, place them in post or pages, etc. But of course it wants to store the images on the site itself.

Now, my current hosting service allows for unlimited storage and bandwidth, and so far has been excellent as far as speed, etc. All things being equal, is there a benefit to storing those files in the cloud? I was willing to do that to get the management benefits I get from SmugMug, but as just pure file storage, it seems like I should just store them at my site.