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With the digital age in full swing – and with mobile phones and digital cameras spreading at exponential rates – providing a place to store and display photos is becoming a serious online business. That’s where imag

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

e Web hosts come in. They allow individuals to upload images on to a website and to store those images on their Web servers.

Depending on what a user is looking for, image hosting comes in various forms. Do a Web s

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

arch and you’ll find solutions ranging from free, bare-bones uploading on an ad-splashed site – where images may never be found again – to paid services, offering organized features, unlimited bandwidth and quality

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

support.

With such an extensive market facing consumers, TopHosts took a deep look at the state of Image hosting, where it’s headed and what to look out for.

Free Services Peaked

Brett Marks is P

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

oprietor and CEO of ImageViper, a provider of free and paid image hosting services. He thinks that the industry as a whole has already plateaued and that the basic, template-based image hosting sites, usually offere

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

d for free, are in decline. He says more and more paid, feature-based image hosting services are hitting the scene.

“It seems nowadays that every man and their dog has an image hosting site,” Marks said. “But I thi

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

k they (free/basic image hosting websites) have hit their peak and their infancy is starting to die down a bit now.”

ImageViper offers the best of both worlds. Free accounts provide the company with the exposure th

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ey need, Marks explained, while giving users a “taste” of their services, and perhaps encouraging them to purchase a paid account down the road.

Paid Solutions Growing

Web hosting provider, SiteGr

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

und.com, is well known for their paid image hosting services and expertise. Its image hosting plan costs $4.95/month and comes with free domain name registration, 40 GB of space, 900 GB traffic and free installation

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

of popular open source applications, namely, Coppermine and Gallery online picture galleries.

Lilyana Yakimova, Marketing Manager at SiteGround, says that image galleries are among the top five most popular purcha

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

es for the company. She believes demand for image hosting, especially paid services, will grow in the coming years because digital-technology is becoming more widespread and easier to use.

“Making quality pictures

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

and even videos is getting more and more easier,” Yakimova said. “People will start looking for more space to fit the bigger sizes of quality images and faster connection for easier upload.”

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dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

, Limitations

Yakimova says if you’re looking for more freedom, online security and no advertisements, paid image hosting is the way to go. Free image hosting limits users in disk space and bandwidth, and

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

may also provide questionable software and server security.

SiteGround’s image hosting solution functions as their regular hosting plans do. They come with a free domain, personal email accounts, free installations

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

free tutorials, expert 24/7 support and an uptime guarantee.

Marks of ImageViper says that, most importantly, paid image hosting offers generous space limits. He says to always check out and compare the limitation

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As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

s offered if you’re considering a paid service. ImageViper’s paid solution, ranging from $1.99/month for 100 MB to $4.99/month for 300 MB, comes with unlimited bandwidth, unlimited amount of folders, multiple image

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ploading ability, no ads and an array of other features.

Not Just About Space

He says customers appreciate the many features, user-friendly interface and unlimited bandwidth – especially power use

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

rs who know that large amounts of storage space is useless without the bandwidth to serve images.

“Be wary of sites offering large amounts of space but low bandwidth,” Marks said. “Also don’t get fooled into hosts

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

anting to charge you a ‘per image’ charge or places that are offering too many confusing plans and limits.”

Yakimova of SiteGround agrees that space should not be the only criteria when considering a paid image hos

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ting service. “The customers should avoid judging a hosting provider based only on the space and the traffic it provides,” she said. “As I said, server security and technical support are the most important features.

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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