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 photo hosting

These are free image hosting services that allow free hotlinking pictures / photos / images (free direct linking and embedding the images on another web site, such as eBay auctions / listings, MySpace, blogs, forums, messageboards, and other web sites. For a more extensive list, see the free photo hosting directory.

Free Image Host Service	Maximum FileSize	Hosted Pictures Last	Bandwidth Limit ( "-" = Unspecified )	FileTypes / File Extensions	Comments / Reviews
Hotlink Files	50 MB	Unlimited	8000 MB/month (8 GB monthly)	All file types	Registration Required?: Optional. HotlinkFiles.com provides free file hosting services with direct linking files allowed for all filetypes (not just pictures and images). Registering gives extra features, but the anonymous uploader form allows uploading images up to a maximum filesize of 5 MB. Registered members can create private, public, or hidden folders. Users can upload a zip file of image files to be extracted on their dedicated web server. Hosted files are stored on the webserver forever (indefinitely).
Image Venue	1.5 MB	Forever if active; Inactive images deleted after a year	Unlimited	JPEG, JPG	Registration Required?: Optional. Hotlinking thumbnails free was allowed (but does not work now), but only ImageVenue paid premium members can hotlink large fullsize images. The free free image hosting service is run on a reliable Linux dedicated server network.

Free Image Hosting - TinyPic

TinyPic.com 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. The idea is similar to TinyURL in which each uploaded image is given a relatively short internet address. An account is not required to use Tinypic. TinyPic.com allows upload and hosting of JPEG (jpg), png, gif and tiff files. Images that are larger than 1600 pixels (either width or height) are automatically resized to the largest acceptable size while maintaining their original aspect ratio. Tinypic does not accept standard-definition video files of sizes larger than 500 Megabytes or longer than 15 minutes. Videos longer than 15 minutes are truncated to 15 minutes. They have recently included hi-definition video uploads of 500MB and it limits the time to 5 minutes. Tinypic officially accepts 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, 3p, asf, avi, divx, dv, dvx, flv, moov, mov, mp4, mpeg4, mpg4, mpe, mpeg, mpg, qt, wmv, xvid and rm digital video file types. Tinypic has recently decided to disallow hosting if the referring site is reddit.com.

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 - ImgFreeHost

ImgFreeHost.com 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. The uploaded images, pictures, and photos stay hosted on their image free host server for 60 days, however if you wish to have your images hosted indefinitely you can upload your pictures again at any time to reset the 60-day limit. Linking codes are provided in 3 different formats, and direct linking pictures can be done on auction sites like ebay, classifieds, forums, message boards, and other websites ("hotlinking" allowed). Signing up at imgfreehost is not mandatory to be able to use the free anonymous upload, but free registration will help you manage your hosted pictures (delete and change images).

Free Image Hosting - MyNetImages

MyNetImages.com 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. You can create unlimited number of sub-photoalbums, and even sub-albums within sub-albums. Image links are easily accessible thanks to multiple view options within the members account. You can hot-link images or use a public gallery section to share your images. Photo album privacy settings allow you to prevent people from viewing your content. You can move your sub-albums and images into other sub-albums, add descriptions, and rename them. Upload settings allow you to change the default image size, so all your images can be resized to your liking during upload. Member registration is required. Supported image formats (file extensions allowed): jpeg, jpg, gif, png. The maximum image size allowed is 512 KB, and the free hosting accounts provide 999 MB of available storage space for your image files. Images larger than 512kb are optimized during upload so you can upload large photos and they will automatically be optimized for web viewing. There are multiple account view options, such as thumbnail, list, and image links. You can upload single images or use their Flash-based, one-click, multi-image uploader. At the moment, there are no limits on bandwidth usage, and there is no set time limit on when uploaded images expire, so they are not deleted from the webserver. There is a forum where users can get help and post suggestions/requests for future features.

Free Image Hosting - InselPix

InselPix.com was a free picture hosting website which allows unregistered users to upload photos and images, hosted with unlimited bandwidth. It let you upload and hotlink images up to 5mb (5000 KB), which is fairly large filesize limit compared to most free image hosting services that allow hotlinking full-size images. The free imagehosting web site provides unlimited storage space to upload your pics, and supports uploading these image file extensions: .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp. You can hot-link your hosted photos on blogs, forums, ebay auctions, and other web sites.

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.

Free Image 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).