out of disk space - want to host pictures on picasa or flickr

I've been using gallery for several years and have run out of disk space with my web hosting site.
to increase disk space they want a ridiculous amount of money.
to migrate the whole thing to another host is too much effort (due to other legacy stuff running on the same site).

I'm looking for a way to keep my gallery site as it is but to have the pictures streamed from a remote source such as flickr or picasa or another cheap web hosting deal such as godaddy.

i've been searching the gallery forums for a mod that would allow the image and video files to be sourced NOT from the local disk but from a REMOTE ftp or http source but haven't found anything. I've even considered a linux kernel module that will mount a remote FTP site as a local disk but that seems to require the source code of my current kernel which i dont have @#$

Can you please suggest a solution?

my current site is based on gallery2 but i dont mind migrating to gallery3 if that will solve the problem

thanks

Since I typed this up already in your other thread... BTW, don't be sorry about cross posting, just don't do it

Those options? Not possible.

I've seen some people using Amazon's S3 service.

http://gallery.menalto.com/node/77816
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/46771
http://www.google.com/search?q=gallery+s3+amazon

While G3 code base might take up less space and there will probably be less files needed to be cached, if the majority of your site is photos, it's probably not going to save you any time and you'd still end up with a disk space issue as you'd have to install G3 on the same server and have duplicates of your images for a time.
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This has been brought up many times over the past years. Gallery (and any app like this) needs local file access to the files, period. You could point it to a photo on some other website, but it's going to have to copy that file to your server to process it.

If you want an "app" that just point to pictures on other websites, there's notepad, start writing your html and referencing remote images
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bharat is so much nicer than me
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Here's an idea. I'd appreciate your help and feedback:

1) put all big jpeg files on a remote host accessible via http or https (w/ password if security is needed). replace/add the image files on the host where gallery2 is installed, for example XXX.jpg with a symbolic link.

XXX.jpg -> http://remotehost.com/images/XXX.jpg
(linux file systems dont mind as long as the URL is not too long)

2) modify the functions in gallery2 involving reading image files from disk. (open, close, read, lseek etc.) so that if the file type is symbolic link and the symbolic link is of the form "http://.*"), rather than treating it is a file, use some php functions that open http sessions and read from URLs.

3) icons and temporary files can be stored locally. the 80% of the space is taken by the original 5mb jpeg files and videos anyway..

Can that this be done easily ?
are the functions in gallery2 that deal with opening/reading files, consolidated in one place or are they all over the code base ?

thanks for your help

can anyone point me in the right direction regarding where centralized file operation take place in gallery2 ?