- Creation date: 2008
- Technologies: PHP + MySQL + HTML
This was the third and final version of Subir-Fotos.com ("upload-photos.com" in English), building upon the original 2006 version and the 2007 update. It featured a refreshed design and continued to offer user accounts for managing and sharing pictures.
Unfortunately, this was also the year I had to close the website. With thousands of new pictures being uploaded every day, the task of moderating the content became overwhelming and very time-consuming, and that issue was made even worse by the fact that the servers were down or almost down very often – I had no idea how to get more capacity, so the website was constantly dying of success.
Interestingly, I didn't shut it down because it was losing money, as it was actually making a decent amount. And I definitely wasn't scared of legal repercusions – internet was much more wild, permissive, and unpoliced back then, so that wasn't really a concern (plus, I wasn't even eighteen yet). The trigger came when my mother told me that some family members were concerned about the kind of explicit content I "was" uploading to my website.
Of course, I never uploaded such content; only other users did, and only when I wouldn't manage to remove it in time (again, trying to go through thousands of pictures a day to delete the unallowed ones wasn't easy). But this was 2008, so most people of a certain age still didn't quite grasp how the internet worked: to them, if something was in my website, I must have put it there myself!
I could have tried to make a case for myself and my website to keep it going, but given that most of my revenue was coming from Tutoriales-Gratis.com anyway, I simply decided to shut this site down to avoid further headaches.
