Web Hosting Services


Photos-of-the-Year.com is currently running on dedicated server provided by midPhase Services, Inc. a privately held web hosting and Internet services company based out of Chicago. midPhase provides budget, shared, advanced and other types of web hosting services to a wide range of clients ranging from small business to individuals.





Current hardware configuration for Photos-of-the-Year.com:


2x Xeon Quad-Core Processor Servers
250GB RAID-1 /w additional 250GB online backup disk
2,500 GB Bandwidth / 100Mbps Uplink


About Photos-of-the-Year.com


With the rapid growth in the past years, we have reached a special milestone:

> 100,000 unique user visits in each month
> 1,000,000 page requests in each month
> 9,000 members
> 40,000 online photographs
> 500,000 posts


Photos-of-the-Year.com was established as an open system on the Internet that generates fun and value to all photographers. There are professionals, advance amateurs, and novice photographers all over the world enjoying their time in our site. Photos-of-the-Year.com has been listed in all major directories in the Internet, including DMOZ Open Directory Project and Yahoo Directory. We have also achieved very good site popularity at major search engines - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Many users find Photos-of-the-Year.com a valuable resource for digital photography, check our member review and reference.