I'm looking for a server for hosting images from a webservice that i'm working on. This webservice will need to access the images many times, I'll upload about 4GB of images per day to show to the users. My idea is to host the images over there and get the public links to put on the HTML.
So I'd like to know if Dropbox is an adequate tool for this, because I was studying the Dropbox API and I think It doesn't offer adequate tools to get the images's public link.
Summarizing my question, are these kind of hosts for this kind of services or not?
As the other comments and answers say, a normal CDN is probably a better choice for this.
For reference though, the Dropbox API does let you get publicly shareable links to files:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#shares
You can also modify these links as desired:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/201
There's also a direct and temporary version:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#media
Note however that there are bandwidth limits on these links:
https://www.dropbox.com/help/4204
Also, the API enables you to access file content directly: