Free mailing list services

A mailing list service allows you to send emails to a relatively large group of people (newsletter), or to have a moderated mailing list (discussion group) where subscribers can post their own messages.
Please note that the people receiving these messages have voluntarily subscribed to your list, and can unsubscribe from it at any time.
This is not to be confused with spamming, which is the act of sending email to large groups of people who never asked for it.

Aardvark Mailinglist
Free opt-in mailing lists and newsletters for your web site.

Coollist
Coollist is a web-based system for anyone to easily create free mailing lists.

FreeLists
Free mailing list provider - mostly for Internet and technology related groups. It does not pose any limits on the number of mails you are sending, the size of each email, or the number of subscribers to your list.
Unfortunately, FreeLists sends a separate email each month to all your subscribers requesting a donation.

NotifyList
Free mailing list provider with strict anti-spam policies.

Yahoo Groups
Allows for free mailing lists of almost any type, moderated or non-moderated. Easily configurable options. Yahoo might append advertisements to your messages.

Zinester
Free mailing list provider with support for plain text & HTML formats, message scheduling, subscription web forms. The maximum number of subscribers for your mailing list is 100,000

Free video hosting

Below is a list of websites providing free video hosting service for uploading and remote hosting video files in the form of free streaming video (not just video file downloads), whether the free videostreaming is restricted to be displayed on their web site only, or the free video streaming is allowed to be viewed directly on other web sites. If you prefer to have a free host where your hosted file can be downloaded as a file (no need for streamingvideo), then see instead our list of free file hosting services (most of which allow uploading and downloading of videos, audios, music files, and many other filetypes). In general, these free video file hosting services (such as one of the most popular free videohosts, YouTube) below are managed on a network of dedicated servers due to their popularity and the very high bandwidth usage required to host the large video files. Click on the free videohost name to go to the hosting review page where you can see more detailed info for each.

FileAve is a free file host and web host which gives users 50 MB file storage space on free hosting accounts, and 150 MB bandwidth/day (about 4.5 GB/month).

Hotlink-Files is a free file hosting provider dedicated to providing reliable free filehosting with direct linking files allowed. You can upload, store, and hot-link videos, photos and pictures, music clips, audio files, and more (all filetypes allowed), and stream audio and video files for MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, blogs, and other websites.

YouTube is a very popular free video hosting and video sharing site where you can find and watch thousands of streaming videos, as well as upload videos in almost any video format to tag and share with others (videos can be made public or private). Videos can be categorized, rated, tagged, and commented.

Free image hosting

Below is a directory list of websites dedicated to offering free image hosting service (such as PhotoBucket and ImageShack) for remote hosting of avatars and signatures for forums / message boards and MySpace, uploading auction pictures and photos for auction sites such as eBay and Yahoo, as well as web hosting for a photo gallery of your family etc. Generally these free web hosting services are operated on dedicated servers due to their popularity and high bandwidth usage required.

Hotlink-Files - HotlinkFiles.com is a free file hosting provider dedicated to providing reliable free filehosting with direct linking files allowed.

FileAve - FileAve.com is a free file host and web host which gives users 50 MB file storage space on free hosting accounts, and 150 MB bandwidth/day (about 4.5 GB/month).

AlkaSpace - Alkaspace.com gives you 200 megs of free memory space with 1000 megs of bandwidth monthly suitable for free image hosting of pictures for eBay auctions, Xanga, MySpace, blogs, message boards, forums, websites, or simply to share pictures with your friends or family.

InselPix - Insel Pix was a free picture hosting website which allows unregistered users to upload photos and images, hosted with unlimited bandwidth.

MyNetImages - "My Net Images" is a free image and gallery hosting service with an intuitive desktop-like AJAX based members interface having features such as an easy-to-use Flash based multi-image upload tool, where you can upload as many images as you wish with only a couple clicks.

ImgFreeHost - "Img Free Host" is a free auction image hosting website which allows you to upload these file types: gif, jpg and png images, with maximum file size limit of 250KB per hosted image.

ImageCave - "Image Cave" provides free imagehosting, with image manipulation tools such as image resizing, conversion, rotate, compression, thumbnail and photo album generation.

ImageVenue - "Image Venue" uses a multiple server network to provide free image hosting for bloggers, eBay sellers, message board users, and personal websites.

ImageShack - Free web hosting for images with direct linking allowed (hotlinking).

PhotoBucket - Photo Bucket is a free image hosting company for ebay, online auctions, classifieds, message boards, blogs, live journals, and online photo albums.

Tinypic is a photo and video sharing service, owned and operated by Photobucket.com, that allows users to upload, link and share, images and videos on the Internet.

Free File Hosting

This web page lists websites offering free file hosting service for remote hosting of files - filetypes not usually supported by most free image hosts, yet not as wide-ranging as what most website hosting services would allow to be hosted. The free file hosts in the directory list below allow free hosting of video files, audio/music files, Adobe Acrobat documents (PDF), and/or compressed archives such as ZIP files. Generally these free web hosting services are operated on dedicated servers due to their popularity and high bandwidth usage required. Click on the free filehost name to go to the review page where you can see more info.

Host-A is a free file hosting service for anybody who wants to upload their files or content for public exhibition or private downloading.

ADrive offers 50GB of free online storage and backup for all file types. Store your files with ADrive and access, manage and edit them from any computer.

FileAve is a free file host and web host which gives users 50 MB file storage space on free hosting accounts, and 150 MB bandwidth/day (about 4.5 GB/month).

DataFileHost features free file sharing services with no registration needed (anonymous uploading free), and all file types supported. The maximum file size allowed is 25MB (25 MB per file).

HotlinkFiles is a free file hosting provider dedicated to providing reliable free filehosting with direct linking files allowed. You can upload, store, and hot-link videos, photos and pictures, music clips, audio files, and more (all filetypes allowed).

FilesCo - "The Files Company" is a free file hosting to upload and share files online so you and others can access them from any computer. The maximum file size anonymous free filehosting users can upload is 50 MB, and the max filesize for registered users is 100 MB.

FileMonster is a free filehosting service allowing anonymous guest uploads of up to 250 MB ("monster-sized" files) to their servers. There are no upload limits, no download limits, unlimited bandwidth, and virtually all filetypes permitted.

Fast-Files is a free files hosting server allowing easy, anonymous uploading of any files up to a maximum file size of 500 MB (no login required).

Free File Hosting - Host-A

Host-A.net is a free file hosting service for anybody who wants to upload their files or content for public exhibition or private downloading. The free file uploader accepts all file types (games, songs, audios, photos, videos, compressed archive files, etc.), and hosted files are kept until the user removes them. In order to use the free file host, registration is required (instant activation), and uses are given 20 mb of free file storage space to upload files to, and a subfolder URL which lists their public files that can be downloaded. You are given 550 MB of bandwidth/month, but can earn more by using their referral system -- for each user you refer to Host-A, you will earn 100 MB of additional bandwidth; also if a user views your profile page or downloads a file from your free hosting account, and signs up afterwards, you are credited for that. You can upload up to 10 files at once, and mark them as private or public. Hosted files have download counters to record the number of file downloads (you cannot direct link the hosted file though). Account add-ons (upgrade) are available via donation.

Free File Hosting - ADrive

ADrive.com offers 50GB of free online storage and backup for all file types. Store your files with ADrive and access, manage and edit them from any computer. ADrive is a relative newcomer to the online storage game, at least compared to the other sites in this review. That shows in both the pricing and features because ADrive seems to be more current in both areas than most of the other services we reviewed. ADrive has full support for file sharing and file history. The service can even go over your file history and recover files. This is especially nice if you are frequently pulling documents off your online storage, editing them and uploading them again. ADrive provides access to the Zoho Online Document Editor so that you don’t even need to download your files to a computer hard drive to access them and edit them. This is a wonderfully useful tool, especially if you are using a public or bare-bones computer that might not have document editing software. Plus, it’s just more convenient even if you do have editing software. You can make changes right in Zoho and save; you’re done.

Free Video Hosting - YouTube

"You Tube" - YouTube.com is a very popular free video hosting and video sharing site where you can find and watch thousands of streaming videos, as well as upload videos in almost any video format to tag and share with others (videos can be made public or private). Videos can be categorized, rated, tagged, and commented. Registered members can upload an unlimited number of videos to YouTube.com, but there is an upload limit of 100 MB and 10 minutes in length per video file (there is no video length limit for Director accounts). You can upload video file formats from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats. For high quality vidoes, YouTube recommends uploading videos in the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format resized to 320x240 resolution with MP3 audio. Video files uploaded to the service are converted to Flash 8 format for online video streaming. At the bottom of the page for every hosted video there is HTML source code to embed the video in a webpage, which you can use to make your embedded videos autoplay. YouTube supports mobile video uploads (upload videos from your phone or PDA). You can choose to broadcast your uploaded videos publicly, or share them privately with selected friends and family. Hosted videos remain on their servers until the users who uploaded them choose to remove them.

Free File Hosting - Fast-Files

Fast-Files.com is a free files hosting server allowing easy, anonymous uploading of any files up to a maximum file size of 500 MB (no login required). There is a box beneath the file uploader that has an upload progress bar which will show the upload time elapsed and estimated time remaining to finish uploading (useful for large files). All file extensions are allowed, and the free file host allows unlimited bandwidth and unlimited downloads. It features an AJAX upload form which updates dynamically, so the web site will not ever timeout if you are on a slow connection uploading. Hosted files will not be deleted until the web hosting server becomes full (the server disk drives currently have about 1.5 terabytes of file storage space), and then files will be deleted by priority as new files come in (the oldest files with the fewest downloads get deleted first). Files which are downloaded regularly never get deleted from the webserver. On the file download page, you have to enter a captcha code and then wait for a 20-seconds delay counter before you can download the file.

Free File Hosting - FileMonster

FileMonster.net is a free filehosting service allowing anonymous guest uploads of up to 250 MB ("monster-sized" files) to their servers. There are no upload limits, no download limits, unlimited bandwidth, and virtually all filetypes permitted. You can upload files in four different ways: web-based form, Flash uploader, URL copier (also requires browser Flash plugin), and FTP upload (premium users only). The anonymous uploads not downloaded or accessed in 30 days will be deleted from the web server. Free registration is available for users wanting extra features and privledges. The premium hosting accounts support file download accelerators such as Speedget, Download Accelerator Plus, GetRight, GoZilla, and FlashGet. For free hosting accounts, the download link goes to a web page with a short 3-digit captcha, and then another webpage with a 15-second delay counter.

Free File Hosting - FilesCo

FilesCo.com - "The Files Company" is a free file hosting to upload and share files online so you and others can access them from any computer. The maximum file size anonymous free filehosting users can upload is 50 MB, and the max filesize for registered users is 100 MB. The amount of diskspace each account is permitted is unlimited. All filetypes are allowed, and there is limited support for download-accelerators on the freehosting accounts (unlimited for premium paid hosting). Hosted files will be deleted from the free hosting server after 60 days with no download. There is an upload progress bar to show the uploading status, and a 45-seconds delay counter to wait before beginning file downloads.

Free File Hosting - HotlinkFiles

HotlinkFiles.com is a free file hosting provider dedicated to providing reliable free filehosting with direct linking files allowed. You can upload, store, and hot-link videos, photos and pictures, music clips, audio files, and more (all filetypes allowed), and stream audio and video files for MySpace, Friendster, Xanga, blogs, and other websites. Registering is now required for uploading and hot-linking files. The free filehost registered accounts have a 50 MB maximum upload file size for all file extensions, and the anonymous uploader form allows a max file size of 5 MB, but only allows uploading and hotlinking images. You can upload a zip file of images to be unzipped on the web server so they can be hotlinked separately. Registration allows you to upload all other file types and easily manage and track all of your files stored on the host server. Registered members can also create hidden/private/public folders, and get 1000 MB file storage space and 8000 MB monthly bandwidth limit. Registered account users can delete files through the management system, but publicly uploaded images cannot be deleted by users. They will store the hosted files indefinitely (forever).

Free File Hosting - DataFileHost

DataFileHost.com - Data File Host features free file sharing services with no registration needed (anonymous uploading free), and all file types supported. The maximum file size allowed is 25MB (25 MB per file). There is no limit on bandwidth or number of downloads allowed (unlimited bandwidth). Inactive files (no downloads) are deleted from the DataFileHost free servers after 30 days. There is a stats counter on the file download page to show how many times the hosted file was downloaded. There are no hosting restrictions such as a limited number of simultaneous downloads or limited file download speed.

Free File Hosting - FileAve

FileAve.com is a free file host and web host which gives users 50 MB file storage space on free hosting accounts, and 150 MB bandwidth/day (about 4.5 GB/month). That is the daily data transfer for external linking (file downloads by others), but all users have unlimited access to their own files through the control panel. You can host 50 MB of your videos, music clips, Flash animations, WAV files, and images for use anywhere, such as LiveJournal, eBay auction listings, MySpace, Xanga, photographers, sharing your files, homework, and more. All file types are permitted, but no scripting is allowed. The HTML codes are automatically generated for embedding music/videos/images on webpages -- hotlinking (direct linking/ external linking) files is allowed. Once you have uploaded a song, music, or video file, you can use the "Get Codes" link to generate EMBED tags that can be used on other websites to play the music/video file. The filehosting account includes a free subdomain, such as yourname.fileave.com, in which you can make a free home page. You can create your own folders/directories to organize your files, or just upload files into the root folder. FileAve.com is a sister site to Ripway.com (owned and operated by Ripside Interactive, a free web hosting company since 1999), and their dedicated webhosting servers are located in a highly secure datacenter, with redundant storage, multiple connections to the internet, and a large cluster of web servers to maintain hosting reliability. Account creation is instant (registration required). Freehosting accounts that are inactive for more than 60 days (2 months) will be removed from the webservers, but their TOS reccommends to log in to your account at least once a month to keep it active. Accounts can have paid upgrades to increase the file storagespace and daily data transfer limits.

Free Image Hosting - ImageShack

ImageShack.us - Free web hosting for images with direct linking allowed (hotlinking). It can be used to share pictures with friends, post images on message boards. It can also be used to direct link images from your personal website or eBay auction. No signup required. Powered by highly reliable Linux dedicated server network. Limitations: File size limit 1.5 MB; File types allowed: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, bmp, tif, tiff, swf (Flash). Their FAQ states that the freely hosted images will not be deleted from their hosting servers unless the image files violate their Terms of Service (TOS).

Free Image Hosting - ImageCave

ImageCave.com provides free imagehosting, with image manipulation tools such as image resizing, conversion, rotate, compression, thumbnail and photo album generation. Direct linking and remote loading are allowed, so you can directly link any of your photos, albums, thumbnails, or album lists on any website, such as eBay auction, Live Journal, Blogger.com, or anywhere you need to post pictures. Short URLs (usera.imagecave/you/). Signing up is required, and paid upgrades are available for more storage space and allowed bandwidth. It now features unlimited data transfer (unlimited bandwidth), 10 MB image storage. BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF support. Free accounts are limited to 250 KB GIF or 1 MB JPG image files. JPG images over 250 KB will be compressed, BMP images will be converted to JPG files, and larger images will be rejected.

Free Image Hosting - AlkaSpace

Alkaspace.com gives you 200 megs of free memory space with 1000 megs of bandwidth monthly suitable for free image hosting of pictures for eBay auctions, Xanga, MySpace, blogs, message boards, forums, websites, or simply to share pictures with your friends or family. You can host JPG, GIF, and PNG files up to 20 megs each, with hotlinking images supported. "Alka Space" offers lots of useful features as creating an auction gallery, an image portfolio, a slideshow, and a special "spin 360" option (360-degree spins). The free image host also has a tutorial to help you to add free images or an online photo gallery to your eBay auction listings. You can use their service without registering if you use the public area ("demo"), but they recommend that you register to have more privacy. Your account is renewed automatically every month. The free photo hosting service says it may place branding on uploaded images, though no watermark was on the image we uploaded in the demo section.