I am a little overwhelmed by all the choices I have for a safe storage site to place all my best work. Right now I have the Flikr free account, which is not adequate for holding all I want it to. Is Flikr worth paying for? I want people to have access to my portfolio, but I am just a hobbyist so I am not interested in an expensive website. I know there are free ones, but are they any good? Are websites better than Flikr? A high priority for me is that it cannot be complicated or time-consuming for me to organize it and add pics to it. Thank you!

Flickr is a sharing site, not a back-up tool. Possibly, you two separate issues confused or intermingled. All your work should be backed-up to removal media, either locally or to the cloud (internet). The decision is yours, alone, based on your own personal balance of (a) ease of use and (b) cost and (c) completeness of recovery in event of total loss. For example, if you periodically add your images to a 4TB external drive you keep in your desk drawer; and then, if your computer crashes, you can still recover everything copied to the HD. But, if your house burns down, you've probably lost both the computer and the HD.

Flickr is the leading share site now in 2020. Many find their free limit of 1000 images to be sufficient. Others find the annual $80 cost to be well worth the cost for the absence of advertising and the unlimited ability to load images. The paid version also provides traffic analysis tools for how popular various images are within your online portfolio on their site. Using Flickr has a low threshold for technical skills. You just drag n drop images onto their site to upload. You can share links to individual images and / or albums of images stored on Flickr. Also, you should upload images at a lower pixel resolution than the full-sized originals, again negating Flickr as a back-up tool.

I am a little overwhelmed by all the choices I have for a safe storage site to place all my best work. Right now I have the Flikr free account, which is not adequate for holding all I want it to. Is Flikr worth paying for? I want people to have access to my portfolio, but I am just a hobbyist so I am not interested in an expensive website. I know there are free ones, but are they any good? Are websites better than Flikr? A high priority for me is that it cannot be complicated or time-consuming for me to organize it and add pics to it. Thank you!