If you need a place to host your digital work or photos online, then there is a wide range of sites you can use – some with better features than others, here we list and mini-review 31 of the best and worst
Img.im Simple Image Hosting Service
Zoomr : Recent startup that is shaping up to take on Flickr. Have just announced they will be increasing monthly limits on free and paid accounts to more than what Flickr offers.
Vmix : Founded by the people behind MP3.com, Vmix offers photo and video sharing along with the ability to create you own slideshows. A busy-looking site that seems to have quite a bit of traffic.
Flickr : The daddy of photo-sharing sites, the first in the breed of web 2.0 photo sites, allows you to create galleries, tag photos etc. The biggest in terms of traffic and was acquired by Yahoo.
Fotki : Founded in 1998 Fotki has been around for ages in relation to a lot on this list, it offers a range of services such as photo-sharing, photo-printing, photo-selling and blogging.
Fotolog : Large photo blogging community – claims to have a staggering 1.5 billion page views and receive over 20 million unique visitors per month which is backed up by its alexa ranking of 33.
Fototopic : Another site that has been around a few years; since 1999. Offers gallery services and also prints and your photos on to various gifts within their store.
Glowfoto : A basic photo sharing site that offers galleries and the option to upload via mobile phone. 25million photos have been uploaded by 73k users so far.
MyPhotoAlbum : Photo sharing with the usual features and also offers printing; currently offering 15 free prints to new users. Has had 32million photos uploaded so far.
Panoramio : Photo storage and a mapping feature via a mashup with google maps. Each photo gets linked with the place it was taken. 2GB storage included for free.
Ringo : No, not the beatle but a rather smart-looking site which combines photo sharing with social networking. Every week you get your friends newest photos and comments delivered to you. One of the better-looking sites.
Zoomonga : A nice-looking site but the rather stingy 20mb of uploads per month on the free plan could be why it doesnt look exactly busy.
Webshots : Another huge site owned by Cnet. Provides the usual photo sharing features plus a desktop utility for organising photos, prints on gifts etc.
Photobucket : The favourite of myspace users, provides free and paid accounts for image hosting and video hosting along with the ability to create a flash slideshow. Have harnessed viral marketing to a tee and provide most of the image hosting for myspace and other social networks.
PBase : Not the easiest on the eye but seems to have gained huge traffic since it was established in 1999. Very basic features and a huge member’s forum.
pic27.com :The favourite of myspace,Orkut,Tagged,Hi5,Yahoo,Blog,Forum users provides free image hosting upto 1 GB.The Most fastest & Reliable
Picture hosting and sharing site that one can always rely on.
Ill also recommend http://www.thefilegarage.com
I've been using it for a while and it's pretty good
You can check also http://www.loadmypicture.com – it is simple, free and bannerless image/photo sharing solution
a good free image hosting site is http://www.l2image.com
Photobucket.com is certainly the best hosting site and i am telling you out of my sheer experience. It's the choice of millions. I have used their services to upload a lot of images & videos onto my website i.e forexfreedownload.com & forextradingsystemfree.info
hotobucket is also the fastest and the most reliable of all hosting sites.
Very Fast and Reliable-Create Galleries and Crop your Pictures…Best for me: http://www.picture-host.org
i am using http://xtupload.com and i am quite happy with them , do to the unlimited bandwidth and disk space
Hi,
This is an amazing list. I have used Tinypic.com, photobucket.com, rapidshare.com, imageshack.us and many more image hosting websites to upload both pics and videos on my website i.e makemoneykingdom.com. So with my experience i should be able to tell you that these websites ate just Gr8. They work like a champ. This is my honest review.
Wish I contributed something that was worth sharing 🙂
Wow, this is a great list of image hosting sites.I will like to recommend ImageLuv too. Been using it for a few months and I love the fast loading of multiple images.
You can also create watermarks for copyright.
http://imageluv.com
I use http://www.g4vault.com no annoying ads and you can upload anonymously or create a free account and make it private
Man… You missed http://www.1pixelhost.com Nobody can top them out. Really 🙂
Addition to that great list I suggest ePhoto Bay
It is a new photos hosting service but totally free. and doesn't required an account to upload images. you can upload up to 10 MB for image file size with no limit on bandwidth.
Ezpicshare.com also is one. Can hotlink and there's no bandwidth cap.
Try mejuba.com – it's so much better than both flickr, photobucket and webshots. Much nicer and bettr user interface as well.
Don’t forget about http://www.photodekho.com They provide a great service!
Host Pic.Org
Host Pic.Org is a online picture hosting service with various options/features which other sites may not be providing. Site has been launched with the motive of providing best online picture hosting solution at no cost. There are two ways in which pictures can be hosted – One by registering with site and other without being registered. At times, people do use picture hosting without registration. Members who register can maintain their own picture album and can edit or delete pictures of their album. Site is generating all kinds of URLs for every picture uploaded. Eg. Direct URL, BB Code, Thumbnail Code etc.
Host Pic.Org is growing at leaps & bounces and indexed PR1 by google in first month of its launch.
However, we are very strict about terms of use. We do not allow uploading of adult content. This would include pictures containing nudity and sexual situations. We also do not allow pictures that depict illegal activities or subjects. Those who upload illegal files will be blocked (by IP address) from using our service. Legal authorities may be contacted if the subject of the file is found to be illegal.
Also we are very clear on copy right issue. We retain no copyright to photos on this site. All uploaded files are copyright by their respective owners.
We have following features which has made our site growing very fast and liked by people.
– Multiple files upload upto maximum 14 pictures at a time with a single click
– Upload from URL also possible and it is also multiple URLs at a time
– No registration required to host images (though registration is highly recommended)
– maximum file size upto 2 MB
– Fast Uploading
– Exhaustive picture URL list to work with html, forum, hotlinking etc.
– very fast and simple 30 seconds registration, user name & email id -nothing else is required
– Option to mark picture private to make it invisible in Gallery
– Very easy to see all uploaded pictures in one window (when registered)
– Easy bookmark button available on site
– Pleasant layout and lot more.
Hello,
I share photos and images on mediafire.com and http://www.isphotobomb.com ,
but I prefer this last because is cool and more simple.
Recards
Useful tips at designing i wll also add this to my blog , well done.
Check out one of the best image hosts:
http://www.shinypic.com
Their images will never be deleted, you also can create unlimited private albums.
Thanks!
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I found http://www.lostupload.com is best image uploading site.
It is a new photos hosting service but totally free. and doesn’t required an account to upload images. Account creation is optional feature. you can upload up to 100 MB for image file size with no limit on bandwidth.
Regrads,