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My company uses flickr and picasa web albums as poor man's content delivery networks (CDN) for image hosting, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations on any other services that might be worth looking into, paid and free?

Preferably something that has an API so that it can be integrated discreetly on the backend as a WordPress plugin or for other development frameworks.

A CDN such as Amazon is cheap, and it works, but the lack of a photo-centric API is what prevents me from using it for general usage.

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can you please explain what you mean by 'photo-centric API' ... ?? – Pure.Krome Sep 2 '10 at 0:41
Is the Flickr API not sufficient? flickr.com/services/api – James Lawruk Sep 2 '10 at 16:04
Flickr's API is good, I use it now, but I'm looking for something with more controls over things like sizing and compression, etc. Additionally, when I check the speed of my sites, the images from Flickr are consistently the slowest things on the site. Picasa isn't bad for speed, but I hate everything else about it :p – Dan Gayle Sep 2 '10 at 16:31
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Stack Overflow (and thus by definition, this site) use http://imgur.com/ as they've just launched a brand new API. I'm not familiar with it as I haven't used it, but I had a discussion with Womble (the developer who designed it) about it and it seemed pretty neat.

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The big downside with imgur.com is that currently for commercial sides they only want to get involved with larger higher trafficked sites on a per case basis. I hope they go get additional investments and make it more widely available. – citadelgrad Sep 3 '10 at 15:27
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You can use vaious free CDN like photobucket, flickr etc. And can compress them locally using some PHP scripts like timthumb. is there any special need for APIs? If you feel that these scripts are eating bandwidth then you can search some free webhost provider which can host and run your own script from another server.

I like google since its DNS resolving time is too less. But it doent let me run my script :-(
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