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Wherein people post their hosts--perks and drawbacks.
I personally use a pair of angelfire accounts. It's fairly straightforward and gives you 20 MB of storage for free, but there is a bandwidth cap. Since I only use it for my avatar and sig, it's never been a problem for me. People who need more mileage out of their host should probably steer clear.
*Angelfire has decided to go the way of disabling hotlinks and are no longer an advisable solution to your hosting needs.
I personally use a pair of angelfire accounts. It's fairly straightforward and gives you 20 MB of storage for free, but there is a bandwidth cap. Since I only use it for my avatar and sig, it's never been a problem for me. People who need more mileage out of their host should probably steer clear.
*Angelfire has decided to go the way of disabling hotlinks and are no longer an advisable solution to your hosting needs.
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PowWeb.com is pretty cheap too, but it's hit or miss with them. Sometimes you get great service and other times you won't. At least that's what I've heard.
Really though, 100MB of FREE storage, and it's very straightforward.
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Ups: Fast as all holy hell, unlimited bandwith, 20 megs of space, easy to use uploader and file manager, allows off-site linking, through netscape and basicly garunteed to not get wanged, no popups or anything of any kind.
Downs: 1 meg max size per file, 20 megs may not be enough for some people, does not appear to support FTP access.
In-Between: Set up with AIM screen name, i guess that would be a problem if you didnt have one. but then again they arent hard to register for so whatever
i like it its pretty easy uploads and download really fast. not sure what the limit is tho for monthly bandwidth on free accounts... its not to much tho i can tell you that prolly 15mb
www.tripod.co.uk is the way to go for images. 50 Mb. Unlimited transfer, and you don't have to fuck around with renaming them to .txt to remote link
Simple interface, 100 megabytes of disk space per month, 2,500 megabytes of bandwidth per month. These limits can be raised if you choose to donate $, but they never hassle you for it (no popups or plugs or anything).
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But they don't allow hotlinking.
There's always http://www.sitesled.com/ who offers 100mb of space and 30gb of data transfer. They are somewhat slow, though. And they don't have a good control panel, but that doesn't really matter if you use their FTP.
Then there's www.pixelhosting.net. They don't directly offer a free hosting plan, only a trial. But, there's a forum that I check out a lot, and they offered this only about 2 weeks ago:
http://freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57340
Basically, you write a review for them and if they like it, you get 250mb of space and 10gb of data transfer with cPanel and basically all the extras possible. I've got hosting at pixelhosting, and so far it's really good.
Lastly, there's http://dhost.info/ with 100mb of space and 300gb of bandwidth. I have no idea how good they are, and I know that they have only been around for a few months. All I know is there's instant activation on accounts.
If you need the hosting fast, there's sitesled.com and dhost.info. Otherwise, I'd give a shot at the Pixelhosting thing. Just be sure to ask the support over at PixelHosting if they are still doing the free hosting in trade of a review.
(If they accept the review, you keep the hosting for as long as you want.)
Right now, there's a big interest in free hosts that support PHP. In a few days I'm going to move it to H/A, and then back to Accumulated Forum Knowledge.
Thanks Max for authorizing this.
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Edit: Oh and http://www.oinko.net/freephp/ has a list of free php/mySQL hosting services.
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100 megs of storage
2500 megs of bandwidth a month
Wierd sign up hours now though.
Because of the overwhelming response for our free accounts,
new users may register between 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am mst.
I gotta reccomend this one also and further stress the "No signing up" part, because I simply and absolutely hate to sign up for anything or have to log in to upload a little picture really quick. It's excellent for hosting sigs, random images, etc. and I've never really been bothered by the 1025 kb limit.
The pros:
150 MB of Space.
Direct FTP.
http://yournamehere.topcities.com is easy to remember, dammit.
The cons:
Require a banner ad on your site.
No image hot-linking. At least, I don't think so.
Because this if Forum Knowledge.
And you people have Accumulated it.
Or something.
So if you need a chunky file hosted.... I got no problems.