Image Hosting Questions..

[pl0]

Okay, Ive got a couple of questions regarding image hosting.
first of all, would it be possible to add adsense to all the hosted images? something like another file instead of just upload with a couple of words to describe the image/catagorize it, and generate a html page with the image? (adsense running on the page..)
two, Are there any commercial image hosting software?
three, How much space/bandwidth does this stuff normally run through and for how many images on average? Im planning on offering a 1 mb upload limit.. each server would probably be around 600gb with around 2-3 tb of bw available, how many images do you think each server could hold?
How many views does a normal image host get daily?
What are the best places do advertise? (Doesnt need to be free..).

Thanks.

[freerackspace.org]

1. Doesnt sound practical.
2. Yes, check google and WHT.
3. People can use up a lot of bandwidth. Its impossible to tell you as it can very a lot, just be prepared to get bombarded with traffic.
4. Impossible to answer.
5. on FWHT, Google AdWords, but word of mouth is best.

[Peopls]

Well I tried to do 1 in a sense, by having an htaccess that forwarded all traffic without a referer to images, to a "page" with the image and an ad rather than just the image.

Didn't work however, lots of users reported problems.
3. a fair few, I'd say a few hundred thousand images each bandwidth wise, you'll need a 100mbps uplink though, as 10/20mbps can be too restrictive at peak times.
4. well I can only speak from my experience, when I sold it we were getting about 60,000+ unique visitors a month to the pages, however it would probably be several million a day to the images (server logs got WAAY too big to process
5. http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-image-hosting.php