• Dotclear – Great Blogging Alternative
• Easy Blog Publishing with Zomplog
• Eggblog, the Free PHP MySQL Blogging Script
• Beautiful Blogging with Textpattern
• Database-less Blogging with Flatpress
• A Wiki/Blog Hybrid in WikyBlog
• Habari = Next Generation Blogging Script?
• WordPress Sucks? Try Nucleus CMS
• Small, Yet Powerful Blogging with Pritlog
• Media Publishing Made Easier with Loudblog
• LifeType is Your Blogging Solution?
• Flexible Blogging/CMS with Serendipity
• The King of Kings is WordPress

Have any other blogging script suggestions you would like for me to check out?

The only regulations mentioned is “no adult content” which is reasonable and they are also the sister site to FileBig.com – a web site reviewed here a few days ago. UpPush is definitely worth checking out if you need a free image hosting resource that is both quick and easy to use.

The interface of their web site is very simple and to the point. You put in your e-mail address, the e-mail address you wish to send to and upload up to 1GB worth of files. If you hadn’t figured out the catch of the web site yet – you can send 6 files in all. One thing I really like about this service (other than the brain dead simple interface) is the fact it looks like they have a business model too. You can pay from $9 to $99 a month for a different range of limits and these additional perks:

• Custom branded version of our service with your own company logo
• Use your company domain name (e.g., http://send.yourcompany.com)
• Detailed visit and download tracking, and delivery notification
• Full hosting, tier-1 bandwidth, server management, and support

If your looking for another free file host to use to send those large photos or movies over to Grandma or your CEO – Send6 definitely deserves your interest.

Kayla Fleming, the Vice President over at Surpass Hosting is one of those people who I had always read or watched (no wait, that makes me sound like a stalker doesn’t it?) but never introduced myself to till a few days ago. I needed an interesting personality to talk with and she seemed to take the proverbial cake. I have been a big fan of her work and wanted to learn a little more. According to her profile over at the WHIR…

Kayla has experience in all areas of web hosting from conducting market research to securing server environments. Kayla has worked with Internet companies for nine years and has been involved in the web hosting industry since 2002. Under Kayla’s direction, Surpass has reached record growth each year. She is also responsible for the company’s forum, one of the most active communities among web hosts.

Now your caught up to the same spot it Kayla’s story I was at before this greatly enjoyable chat between the two of us.

How did you “break in” to the wild and wacky world of web hosting we live in today?

Kayla: My first job was doing tech support at an all Mac powered ISP. That was powerful inspiration to stay on the geek path. I watched sites like Blogger.com pop up from thin air and saw a lot of trends unfold. I think it happened very naturally and I was at the right place at the right time.

Where is hosting going to be in the next 10 years? Will it be the same or will we all be controlled by the servers we control right now?

Kayla: I would say that hosting may be going home, that is to home servers and increasingly faster Internet connections. But no matter how many do-it-yourselfers are out there, web hosting is still providing a service, a helping hand, and a look into where the Internet is headed. I feel that in 10 years, it will be very much the same as it now.

What is the one thing that Surpass offers that you think nobody can match you on? I want something you look at, and just think, “Damn, we are pretty good at that”.

Kayla: When I think of Surpass, I immediately think of “friendly” and “personable” above all. I think our forum at www.surmunity.com is one of the largest hosting forums. Most of our staff chat on Surmunity when they’re off the clock and at home. We enjoy what we do and want to help people get their businesses and ideas on the web. If anyone has a bad experience then there won’t be anything fun about that. So I think we are good at ensuring people will have a good experience.

Would you rather be known as a personality inside of the hosting world or would you be happier just sitting behind a desk doing your job? From what I can tell there are two different types in web hosting. The social ones that love to mix and mingle, share ideas and put their faces out there and the ones who hide in a basement somewhere in Montana, which are you?

Kayla: In the past year I have enjoyed traveling more than ever and hope to attend more conventions (excuses to take photos for my Flickr). But deep down I am still a content geek in front of the computer for hours; I’m not very complicated.

You are the VP over at Surpass Hosting. There are not many women in powerful positions in the hosting industry. Is that just because there are more men than women in the hosting area or for some other reason?

Kayla: I think this stems from the tech industry in general. Web hosting is also a very unique sector of the entire tech field. Until the average person can answer “What does web hosting mean?” with perfect confidence, it will take some time before both sexes are commonplace.

Why are there so many different web hosting choices out there?

Kayla: It seems like any type of profitable market will become saturated. I was in Buenos Aires, Argentina for New Year’s and while at a street fair, I saw someone selling fresh orange juice. Then a few blocks down there would be another person doing the same. You’d also see people selling the exact same ugly wallets that no one was buying. The key difference here is that people will always enjoy eating and drinking, but will never have a constant need for ugly wallets. Yet, if people see certain products being sold, they’ll want to try it, just to see if they can do it as well or better. Even if it may not seem possible or profitable at first. So all of the good web hosts are glasses of delicious orange juice.. and the bad ones are ugly wallets.

I want to thank Kayla for taking time out to talk with me, and if you want to see more of her work be sure to check out Surpass Hosting, her WHIR.com blog, and her own personal site.

Web hosting disk space and bandwidth offers are so large these days it is getting ridiculous web hosts have to do something new. You can always lower the price – so why not make fast food’s equivalent to the web hosting world? That is Micro web hosting 101.

Now who would want to use a stripped down and less expensive hosting plan? Well you will need to toss in a few more perks. Maybe an easy to use page editor or a template system. The target for these will not be Joe down the street who has years of experience in coding HTML, PHP and working with MySQL databases. The target is Jane, who has never done a web site before and wants something simple and quick so that she can type in the content, hit save and she never has to look at the site again for six months.

So is Micro hosting a bad thing? No. It is creating yet another business model that will make the web hosts money and the customers of the web host happy.

I know that some people don’t like to register to get this type of service so the only requirement that I had for this list would be that you can upload without registering – with the exception of Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket and some of the known and trusted photo hosting resources.

Here is the list of free photo or graphic hosts:

1. Flickr – 20 MB monthly upload limit / unlimited bandwidth
2. Zooomr – 100 MB monthly upload limit / unlimited bandwidth
3. Visadig – Max file size 1.6MB / unlimited bandwidth
4. Photobucket – 1 GB disk space / 25 GB monthly bandwidth
5. Image Vimage – Max file size 2 MB / bandwidth unknown
6. TinyPic – Unlimited photo hosting and bandwidth
7. PutPix – 2 GB of space / 10 GB bandwidth / 2 MB file size limits
8. ImageShock.eu – no limits mentioned / cool bonus tools included
9. IMGSpot – max file size 650 KB / bandwidth not mentioned
10. ImageShack – max file size of 1.5 MB / unlimited bandwidth
11. Supload – unlimited disk space and bandwidth
12. PicHostOnline -max file size of 1.5 MB / hosted for 60 days
13. UploadJPEG.com – max file size of 1.5 MB / bandwidth unknown
14. ImageVenue – max file size of 3 MB / unlimited bandwidth
15. Keep My File – max file size of 2.5 MB / bandwidth unknown
16. ImageTitan – max file size 1536 KB / unlimited bandwidth
17. ImageRush.com – max file size 50 MB / hosted 60 days
18. Pikki – says unlimited file size and bandwidth
19. PixHosting.info – max file size 10 MB / unlimited bandwidth
20. ImagesFly.com – max file size 5 MB / unlimited bandwidth
21. PostImage – max file size 4 Mb / unlimited bandwidth
22. IMGBolt.com – max file size 1 MB / 1 GB bandwidth (1,000 max views)
23. Slibe – unknown all around, very strange service
24. Picshome – max file size 300 MB / bandwidth unknown
25. ImagePile – max file size 5 MB / bandwidth unknown
26. Uploadem – max file size 15 MB / bandwidth unknown
27. ShareURPic.com -max file size 10 MB / hosted 90 days (or longer)
28. YourUpload.com – max file size 50 MB / bandwidth unknown
29. Upload and GO! – max file size 1 MB / bandwidth unknown
30. Pictiger – max file size 1 MB / bandwidth unknown
31. FreeImageHost -max file size 3 MB / unlimited bandwidth
32. ImageBam – max file size 3 MB / unlimited bandwidth
33. 2and2.net – max file size 3 MB /bandwidth unknown
34. Picfu – no limits mentioned on web site
35. Image Hosting Site – max file size 2 MB / bandwidth unknown
36. Pic-Spot.com – no limits mentioned on web site
37. 10pix.com – max file size 1.5 MB / bandwidth unknown
38. Imagefilez.com -max file size 3 MB / bandwidth unknown
39. DigitalUploader – max file size 256 KB / bandwidth unknown
40. ImageCabin -max file size 25 MB / unlimited bandwidth
41. WeImage – max file sie 2 MB / unlimited bandwidth
42. xs.to – no real rules & limits defined on uploads

Have a perfect one for number 43? Don’t be shy! Drop in a comment or leave me an e-mail and let me know about it.  Need more?  Check out my other reviews of free web hosts.

Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting) had held the fire to his feet though without going over the line. Here are just a few examples of the discussion that has been had.

Daniel (from fxts.net)

Actually, fxts.net is not a fraud. We had contracted with JaguarPC to offer our service, which was a big mistake. JaguarPC was not a good partner with which to try to do something like this.

Today, we just relaunched our $1 hosting service, with much smaller specs. We plan to increase the specs back to 10 Terabytes each of bandwidth and disk space once we finish building our server cluster. We have moved to HostGator, having already purchased one server with them.

What started on a reseller account at JaguarPC grew too fast for JaguarPC to want to handle (we tried numerous times to upgrade to a clustered server solution at JaguarPC, and they basically told us to go screw ourselves as they were too lazy to help us upgrade). This, combined with a major DDoS attack, forced our service down for about five days. We spent this time moving to our new server at HostGator and reconfiguring the service. We have already begun to transfer old user accounts, and have already refunded most of the users who had accounts on the old server.

Again, after our cluster is fully up and running, the 10 Terabyte plan will be back.

Alex (from Sliqua Enterprise Hosting)

That’s pretty amusing to say the least… Per the comment from Daniel, somehow HostGator is going to allow you to offer such a plan under a reseller account? I’m not trying to be rude, but I don’t know any hosting company that is going to allow you to host 10TB worth of anything for $1. The cheapest I’ve seen a provider go on even 1TB is around $150/mo and that was because they are actually setup in a cluster for Backup space with approx. 200TB.

However, I’m really glad someone is going out there and trying to take full advantage of the “promised” resources provided under their oversold hosting accounts. Maybe this will inspire the majority of hosting companies out there *NOT* to oversell, or at least make it impossible to do what fxts.net is doing with their reseller plans. While I feel bad for JaguarPC and HostGator having to deal with your “requirements”, I don’t believe in overselling hosting and wish them the best of luck dealing with you as a customer.

Check out the entire conversation here.

Lunarpages is having a WordPress Theme Contest!! All you need to do is design a unique WordPress Theme and upload it to our site for the chance to win! Just about anybody (with a few exceptions) can participate in the contest and the prizes are amazing!

What are the prizes?

First Prize is $1,000 cash and 5 years free hosting on our Basic Plan

Second Prize is 3 years free hosting + $300 cash

Third Prize is 1 year free hosting + $100 cash

Along with their logo design contest – things are really starting to get creative and fun over at Lunarpages. Oh yeah, might be worth mentioning they are one heck of a good web host too!

Host Color Offers Thanksgiving Deal
Web hosting provider Hostcolor.com announced on Friday it is offering through December 1 a special Thanksgiving promotion that offers a 20 percent discount on shared hosting plans.

Hostway Gives Away Business Makeover
Customers who purchase specific Hostway and ValueWeb products before December 14 will automatically be entered in the draw for $5000 (USD) worth of Hostway services.

Designers – Win a Xbox 360 or $400!
Lunarpages is holding a contest for our new t-shirt design, and you are all invited to submit your designs via our community forums.

AIT Offers Free iPod Nanos
Web hosting provider and domain registrar Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. is offering free iPod nanos as part of its “Holiday Tunes Promotion”, the company announced recently.

Lunarpages is holding a contest for our new t-shirt design, and you are all invited to submit your designs via our community forums. Currently we have black t-shirts with a white design on the back and we would like something a bit snazzier.

Please post your entries on this forum thread as images or a link to your design, and on December 17th we will close out the contest and spend the following 11 days voting as a community on the best 5 entries.

What is the prize? The winning prize is a Xbox 360 or $400! Get more information about the contest over on the Lunarpages forums.