Best place to host 1000+ images for an app.

Question

I'm building an app that needs images of grocery store products, in wondering if there is a good place I can store and access the images? Would imgur be fine?

Answer 1

If I were you, I'd host it yourself locally.

But maybe you could try Google drive or another data hoster.
If you do Imgur they have the right to remove it.

Answer 2

How would I go about hosting it myself? Flask webserver pointing images as a url like.
www.x.com/upc
Would I have to buy a domain name to do that?

Answer 3

If you are running it locally to be assessed only on your computers then localhost (with appropriate setup) can do fine.
Otherwise, get one. Devices outside your control can access it, plus you can encrypt your traffic--which safeguards against most MITM attacks.