# Can anyone recommend a free image hosting service (with FTP upload)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2004, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-free-image-hosting-service-with-ftp-upload/252687 "2004-06-29T09:40:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-free-image-hosting-service-with-ftp-upload/252687/1 "2004-06-29T09:40:23Z")
Can anyone recommed a free image hosting service that allows FTP upload? (or is there no such animal?). It also needs to be free of adult popups and banners. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-free-image-hosting-service-with-ftp-upload/252687/2 "2004-06-29T15:42:04Z")
Most hosting service _do_ use FTP, although it’s embedded in your browser. I don’t know of any that allow direct FTP upload via your own FTP client, if that’s what you mean. Can you clarify a bit, and explain why you need to use FTP? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-free-image-hosting-service-with-ftp-upload/252687/3 "2004-06-29T22:39:02Z")
I’m working on a community radio project at the end of the month and we’ll be setting up a webcam in the studio; we don’t have the bandwidth to serve it directly, so I have a bit of software that uploads an image every X seconds by FTP. The hists that offer FTP upload and free web hosting will only do it in conjunction with a domain reguistration, or they have multiple popups, or they won’t allow the image to be linked externally. In the end, I splashed out a few quid for some web space on my personal domain and I’ll use that; I’ll just embed my page inside a frame on one of the radio station pages. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-free-image-hosting-service-with-ftp-upload/252687/4 "2004-06-30T05:02:34Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > In the end, I splashed out a few quid for some web space on my personal domain and I’ll use that; I’ll just embed my page inside a frame on one of the radio station pages. I think that’s what you’d have to do anyway. I haven’t read the TOS of all the major free image hosting services I know of, but I’d wager they place some transfer limits that are commensurate with the price you’re paying to use their servers. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-recommend-a-free-image-hosting-service-with-ftp-upload/252687/5 "2004-06-30T08:02:18Z")
Heh. No such thing as a free lunch; there ‘free’ were hosts that offered unmetered bandwidth, but again, there were other limitations; I don’t suppose it is all that surprising that nobody wants to let me intensively use even a tiny piece of their bandwidth and server, for nothing at all in return.