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A photographer's website is a working business tool. It delivers proofing galleries to wedding clients, processes booking inquiries, and handles image licensing for commercial clients. The hosting needs are specific: adequate storage for large image libraries, fast delivery of high-resolution images, and reliable SSL for client login portals.
Storage and inode limits for photography sites
A full-resolution JPEG exported for web delivery runs 3 to 8 MB per image. A wedding photographer delivering a 600-image gallery at 5 MB per image uploads 3 GB for a single event. A photographer with ten weddings a year easily accumulates 50 to 100 GB of deliverable content. Budget shared hosting plans with 10 to 20 GB hit limits after a single busy season. The inode limit is the less obvious constraint. Shared hosting plans often cap inodes at 250,000 to 500,000 regardless of disk space. A WordPress gallery site generating multiple thumbnail sizes per image exhausts inode limits faster than disk space. VPS hosting removes both constraints.
Image delivery performance for client galleries
Three changes make the biggest difference for gallery page performance. First, serve images in WebP format. WebP delivers equivalent visual quality at 25 to 50 percent smaller file sizes. WordPress plugins like ShortPixel or Imagify convert images to WebP automatically. Second, lazy-load images below the fold so only images visible in the viewport load on initial render. Third, serve images from a CDN to reduce round-trip time for clients in other cities.
Client proofing portals and PIPEDA
If you use a client proofing portal, it collects client login credentials and stores client preferences on your server. This is personal information under PIPEDA. The hosting server should be secure: SSL, up-to-date software, appropriate access controls, and regular backups. For photographers in Quebec with Quebec-resident clients, Law 25 requires a privacy policy on the website and informed consent for data collection.
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