One big shame is that bira recommended to posters to use Imageshack...
That was no problem for a few years, though the odd photo did disappear. But then Imageshack changed to a paid site and many rejected the idea that they should pay. I was one who did opt to pay as I had maybe 3,000 photos hosted with them and didn't want the links disturbed, but then when the payment came due the second or third time around it was to be automatically paid through PayPal using a particular credit card and I was in America when that fell due and, virtually simultaneously Imageshack and Paypal, advised that the payment had failed. The credit card valid date hadn't been updated.
Of course, it's not possible to get in touch with them to fix this so the account lapsed.
That said, a great number of my photos on Imageshack remain viable.
So, with that happening, a lot of people shied away from remote hosting. I went to Postimage - my first upload there was in September, 2014 - and have had no problems except that at one point they changed their coding and I had to go back and edit posts. For those interested, that change was from 'postimg.org' to 'postimg.cc', so if you encounter a thread which has had pics posted by me through Postimage and they aren't there, simply quote my post and change .org to .cc and you'll get the picture.
Mike, that's 404KF2, has been using IMG BB for a long time with no problems. So between Postimage and IMG BB it's not hard, you just have to forget the Imageshack woes.