A lot of bloggers like to have their images hosted in a third party server. Why? There are many reasons; maybe they don’t like the bandwidth they’ve got from their own server; maybe they don’t like the limitations offered by their own server; or maybe they like to save the bandwidth from their own server. Whatever the reason is, it leads us to the conclusion that we want to host our images Free on the third party server. There are plenty of them out there on the Internet. I’ve searched the web, found a handful of them, and listed them below with a table for your reference:
| Name | Sign Up | Free | Hot Linking | File Size | Image File Type | Video File Type | Speed & User Difficulty | Deleted If Not Been Accessed | Maximum Bandwidth | Maximum Storage |
| ImageShack | no | yes | yes | 1.5MB | jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff, swf | not support | fast & easy | 1 yr | 100KB per hr |
unlimited |
| TinyPic | no | yes | yes | 250KB | jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, png, tif | avi, mov, mpeg, divx, 3gp, qt, dv | fast & simple | unknown | unknown | unknown |
| Free Image Hosting.net | no | yes | yes | 3MB | gif, jpg, bmp, png, | not support | unknown | 60 days keep for ever if registered |
unknown | unknown |
| Photobucket | yes | yes | yes | 1MB | gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, swf | 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, 3p, asf, avi, divx, dv, dvx, flv, gif, moov, mov, mp4, mpeg4, mpg4, mpe, mpeg, mpg, qt, wmv, xvid, rm | fast & easy | unknown | 25GM/m | 1GM |
| IMGSpot | no | yes | yes | 650KB | jpg, png, gif | not support | depends | no expiration | unlimited | unlimited |
| ImageVentue | no | yes | yes | 1.5MB | jpg, jpeg | not support | unknown | 1 yr | unlimited | unlimited |
| FileAve | yes | yes | yes | unknown | all file types | support | unknown | 60 days | 4.5GB/m | 50MB |
| AlkaSpace | no | yes | yes | 20 megs | jpg, gif, png | not support | unknown | unknown | 1000 megs | 200 megs |
| MyNetImages | yes | yes | yes | 512KB | jpeg, jpg, gif, png | not support | unknown | no expiration | unlimited | 999MB |
| Host-A | yes | yes | no | unknown | all file types | support | unknown | unknown | 550MB | 20MB |
| Image-Upload.net | yes | yes | yes | 1MB | jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, txt, zip | not support | fast & easy | unknown | 1GB | 100MB |
| Phosted | no | yes | yes | 350KB | jpg, gif, png, bmp | not support | fast & easy | 40 days | 1GB | unknown |
| ImgFreeHost | no | yes | yes | 250KB | gif, jpg, png, | not support | fast & easy | 60 days | unknown | unknown |
| ImageCave | yes | yes | yes | 250KB | bmp, jpg, png, gif | not support | fast & easy | unknown | unlimited | 10MB |
Do you like some of the Free online image servers listed above? Will you consider to try some of them? Or did I miss your favorite one out there?
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