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As a non-professional user why would one sign up for a SmugMug account? I can share my photos and videos to friends and family a lot of places for free and we can purchase prints there as well. This is a general question, I don't need a feature breakdown vs specific sites.

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I know of no free site that gives you even a couple of these:

  1. Unlimited storage, unlimited # photos, unlimited # galleries
  2. No ads, no ads, no ads
  3. Ability to upload and share full resolution originals
  4. Customize your site to your own look and feel
  5. Ability to use your own custom domain
  6. 24x7 customer service to answer your questions
  7. Ability to freely share your images in any way you want (direct linking into blogs, free sharing or download of originals, etc...)
  8. Solid company financial performance that means the company can be around for a very long time (many formerly free sites are no longer still hosting photos for free)
  9. Viewers don't have to register to see your images
  10. Rich set of security controls so you can control who sees your images (if you want)
  11. Large display sizes (the x3 display size is up to 1200x1600)
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Exactly, this is why I have decided to go for Smugmug - even thou I am just photography fan and hobbyist :) – ziuek Feb 8 at 21:02
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The customization of your site on SmugMug is limited only by your imagination and energy. Smugmug is primarily a photo hosting site, not a social network like many. You get way more than you'd expect for the modest annual fee.

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Because of the "they will be around a long time" and the "they have high redundancy" and "they use Amazon storage" - I am using this as my Online Backup for all my personal photos. Very inexpensive way to archive all my pictures, much easier than DVD's or hard drives. And accessible from anywhere.

If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, i'd like to hear differing points of view...

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If you were already going to have a Smugmug account, then also using it for backup is certainly inexpensive. But, it is not automatic and it can only handle JPEGs. If you have any other type of data that needs to be backed up (I have RAW files, Word files, etc...), then you will need a reliable choice for those. I personally use BackBlaze ($50/yr) for backup because it's 100% automatic, unlimited and because the worst kind of backup is the one you haven't gotten around to doing yet right when you most need it. – jfriend00 Feb 18 at 2:23
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