@George, good point. I may in the future be willing to donate some space and bandwidth, but that won't help with latency (though I get good ping times of 17ms from my server to my house, a few hundred miles away). Anyway, considered using DropBox maybe? It has a PHP API and public URLs. Or searching for an image hosting service which doesn't rate limit an API key?

@George, why do you send it to imgur? Why not save it to the server this PHP script runs on, or better yet, use a static web host(usually providing gigs of space for nearly free) to host these images (and instead upload there?)

What kind of PHP script are we talking about here?

What about plain C? I like C more than C++ oddly enough. Also where is the Assembly and Machine Code love?