Free Image Hosting Resources

Over the past couple of years, we've seen the emergence of many new free Web services that offer image hosting. These services are handy for those who have no interest in setting up a full Web site, but who do need a place on the Web to easily upload and display their photos, graphics and other images.Free image and graphics hosting services are handy for many purposes. You can use them to host images for Web sites, message boards, forums, blogs, eBay auctions and more. Typically, these services support the Web's major image formats, including GIF, JPG and PNG.

PicAttic.com This is an easy-to-use free image hosting service. PicAttic.com supports files up to 2 megs in size. Files types permitted here include JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, ICO, MPG, MPEG and BMP.
Super File Hosting A free file hosting service with an easy-to-navigate interface that lets you upload an unlimited number of files. Each file you upload can be up to 25 megs in size. Your files will be stored here permanently (as long as they're downloaded at least once every 30 days).
Upload2.net A popular free file and image hosting service that lets you upload and share files up to 25 megs in size, with no bandwidth limits or restrictions on file types. Upload2.net stores your files on its servers for one year and there is no limit on the disk space you can use.
FasterUpload.com This is a speedy, easy-to-use image and video hosting service that requires no registration and lets you host files up to 100 megs in size. FasterUpload.com allows all file extensions and split files are permitted.
Dropfiles.net An easy-to-use free image hosting service that gives you 250 megabytes of storage and 1 gig of bandwidth per month. The individual files you upload here can be up to 2 megs in size.
SnapDrive.net A handy free service that lets you upload, share and save files in an online hard drive. The service is easy to use and you're not even required to register. Anonymous uploading is limited to 20 megs per file. Registered users get 2 gigs of storage and can upload files of up to 100 megs.
ElectronicFiles.net A free image hosting service that gives you 5 gigs of storage space and 5 gigs monthly bandwidth. You can upload individual files of up to 10 megs in size. All file formats are permitted.
Alkaspace.com A free image hosting service that offers lots of useful features, including an auction gallery, portfolio, slideshow and a "spin 360" option. Alkaspace.com gives you 99 megs of disk space and is suitable for image hosting for Xanga, MySpace, eBay, blogs, message boards, and more. Here, you can host JPG, GIF and PNG files.
Piczs.com This versatile image hosting site (which is available in a free version) lets you share photos and other images with your friends and family, as well as host images for online auctions. Piczs.com lets you create image portfolios, auction galleries, slide shows, and more.
Free My Image This free image hosting service offers an online photo album that lets you share photos with your friends and family. Here, you get a control panel that lets you easily manage your images. You can also password-protect your images, if you want.
Free Image Home Here's a free image hosting service that gives you 20 megs of space and offers 250 megs of monthly bandwidth. Free Image Home lets you browse your uploaded images and the service supports JPG, GIF and PNG image formats.
Img4Free.com Here's an easy-to-use free image hosting service that gives you 20 megs of storage space and 200 megs of monthly bandwidth. Image formats supported are JPG, GIF and PNG.
PhotoServer.us A free image hosting service that gives you 555 megs of disk space and 1,000 megs of monthly bandwidth. At this site, you can create image portfolios, slide shows and auction galleries. Supported file types include JPG, GIF and PNG.
ImageUploads A free image hosting service, ImageUploads is easy to use and allows hotlinking. This service is handy for posting pictures on Web sites, forums, eBay auctions, etc. Supported image formats include GIF, JPG and SWF.
FreeImageHosting.net This is a new free image hosting service that is easy to use. FreeImageHosting.net is useful for posting images on message boards, online auctions, online classifieds, and sharing pictures with your friends and family. The service supports GIF, JPG and PNG file extensions.

ImagePros.us Here's a free image hosting service that offers you unlimited bandwidth and lets you store images of up to 3 megs in size. ImagePros.us is suitable for posting images on message boards, online auctions, Web classified ads, blogs, and more.
myFileStash.com (Note: this site is temporarily unavailable). This site offers free file storage and image hosting. Here, you get 25 megabytes of space, and you may upload individual files of up to 2 megs in size. The service is handy for storing many types of files, including documents, music, video, Flash files, and more