How to Host .ICO Files for Free

As you know there are many kinds of images, there are .jpg, .bmp, .png, .ai, .eps etc. all these image formats are used to build websites and blogs. But if you want images in your blog you have to host them first, if you don’t want to pay for a hosting service you can always use a free image hosting service, but there are some restrictions for image hosting. Let´s see, you can easily upload almost any image you have in your pc, but the problem comes when you try to upload .ICO files (stands for Icon) in that case it´s for sure that you are going to get an error message, something like ” We are sorry but we couldn´t upload your image, please select only supported files” but Why would you want to upload an ICO file? well these kind af files are used to create what we know as Favicons. Favicons are those tiny images next to the title of a website or blog, and they are used to distinguish a website from another or just to provide a professional touch. Anyway if you want to upload an ICO file there are some options you might want to try.

How to host an ICO file for free

1. Go to one of these free hosting providers.

Freewebs They allow you to create as many accounts as you wish.
110MB They give you not 110 mb but 2000 mb of free hosting but for an ico file you just need about 5 kb.
Bravenet You can create more than 5 website in one account and they support all kind of files.
50Megs A very reliable free hosting service.
XM Hosting

…and create an account.

2. Go to your control panel or to your file manager in the members area of the service you chose.

3. Look for your icon in your hard drive and then upload it.

4. Copy the URL of the ICO file and use it in you other websites or blogs and that´s it.

As you can see this is very easy to do and sometimes it is even obvious but many people don’t know how to host ICO files. Don’t forget that if you are hosting a favicon you cannot host two of them in the same location, why? because in order to use a favicon for you blog or website you will have to name it “Favicon.ico” therefore if you try to host another favicon in the same folder the first one will be replaced by the new one, but no problem, remember that you can create another folder and upload the new favicon to this new folder in the same account.

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