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http://www.zshare.net/ -- everything hosted..

Testing

http://isitup.org
- http://isitup.org/example.com

http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheckdomainf.aspx
- http://www.checkdns.net/quickcheck.aspx?domain=example.com&detailed=1

Speed Testing (TODO)

Website hosting

proper hosting

http://www.engineyard.com/ - For Rails.

[1] DreamHost
- [2] Doesn't allow: File upload sharing archive backup mirroring / distribution sites.
- Emailed to clarify.

Free Hosting

A good place to check is probably http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-mysql-database.php

I looked at these pretty closely.

http://izfree.com (forum, blog)
- http://izfree.com/tos.php
- Allows domains. Does not require any personal information.
- Requires a forum signup (but not activity). They've disabled forum signups, but I emailed for help. I never got a response.

http://dhost.info
- Looks wonderful. Doesn't allow domains.

http://www.x10hosting.com
- http://www.x10hosting.com/signup.php -- requires one to regularly log into their forum.

http://atbhost.net
- They can just deny with no reason and no way to communicate. Nice.

crap hosting

http://sites.google.com
http://www.yola.com
- was synthasite.com
http://geocities.yahoo.com
uh.. etc?

Website services

blogs:

http://baywords.com -- Wordpress blogging. They temporarily disabled new signups. =( It's been a long while though..

forum:

http://forums-free.com

DNS

http://noip.com - subdomains
http://crabdance.com -- free subdomains
http://freedns.afraid.org -- Free DNS Hosting, Dynamic DNS Hosting, Static DNS Hosting, subdomain and domain hosting.

http://godaddy.com - good for .com
http://baremetal.com - good for .ca
http://noip.com - good for privacy
http://domainsbyproxy.com - I've seen it used for privacy with godaddy stuff.

Dynamic DNS services

http://dyndns.org
http://no-ip.com
http://www.dhs.org/
http://dynserv.com

Blog hosting

http://wordpress.org
http://twitter.com - microblogging
- http://twitpic.com/ for pictures

Project hosting

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities

https://sourceforge.net/
https://gna.org/
http://rubyforge.org/
http://luaforge.net/
http://projectlocker.com/

There's also https://fusionforge.org/ if you want to have a SourceForge-like website.

File hosting sites

http://gemcutter.org/ - for Ruby gem hosting

multi-upload

http://uploadmirrors.com
- Seems really awesome!

Picture hosting sites

http://tinypic.com
http://photobucket.com

allow direct image linking:

http://imagebanana.com - ABSOLUTE GOLD. No logging in, no bullshit.
http://slide.com
http://bayimg.com -- No censorship. From the guys who did the pirate's bay?
http://www.freeimagehosting.net
http://www.imgrush.net
http://pic.ipicture.ru
http://www.obrazok.eu
http://pixelup.net
http://jpghosting.com

unknown:

http://www.imagebams.pl
http://funpicload.com
http://upload.skins.be
http://www.imagesforme.com
http://imagevenue.com
http://fotosik.pl
http://www.picsaway.com
http://www.hostpix.de
http://www.snapfish.com
http://imageshock.eu
http://www.pixfarm.net
http://jpghosting.com
http://www.imagefap.com -- They accept porn
http://www.picscrazy.com -- Might accept porn
http://tinypics.us -- Might accept porn
http://hotlinkimage.com
http://largeimagehost.com ?

good on keeping pictures around:

http://www.1rk.net
http://filesurf.ru/
http://archive.to/
http://www.files.to/
http://hotshare.net/
http://up.spbland.ru/
http://flyupload.com/
http://www.savefile.com/
http://www.imagehost.org/
http://www.hyperfileshare.com/
http://balsamic.fam.cx/balsamic-uploader

http://porn.orge.pl/ -- used to be a torrent site, now it hosts images.. =/

Video hosting sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_sharing_websites

... somewhere else.

[4] YouTube
[5] Vimeo
http://www.howcast.com
http://photobucket.com -- Not really explored.

[6] Seesmic
- Video blogging

http://www.viddler.com
http://en.sevenload.com
http://www.vloggerheads.com
http://www.natelki.net
http://www.veoh.com -- They syndicate to multiple hosts! Their internal player is Windows-only.. bah.
http://www.liveleak.com
http://video.google.com
http://blip.tv -- Their videos lag
http://www.metacafe.com sortof..
http://www.revver.com -- Their videos don't actually appear in my browser.
http://www.onetruemedia.com sortof..
http://www.dailymotion.com
http://magnify.net
http://www.pandora.tv
http://www.kewego.com/mykewego.php/
http://www.break.com
http://www.asterpix.com

http://www.motiono.com -- dead?
http://www.gofish.com -- gone?

webcam chatrooms and video streaming

[7] Stickam
http://www.blogtv.com
- Open TCP/1935
- [8] bandwidth checker
http://www.ustream.tv
http://www.livevideo.com
http://www.voiceandvideochat.com
http://www.justin.tv
http://bambuser.com
http://camitt.com
http://www.mogulus.com
http://www.tokbox.com
http://www.chatablanca.com
http://cam4.com

http://www.paltalk.com
- http://express.paltalk.com -- In-browser functionality.
- Looks like this is largely a for-pay service.

Audio hosting sites

http://www.youtunes.com/

Public DNS servers

You could just run djbdns -- it's a replacement for BIND.
- See also http://www.tinydns.org

http://opendns.com -- They have a nasty "feature" that redirects any request to a non-existent domain to themed Yahoo! search results. Apart from that, the service is very good, and I think if you create an account you can turn off that "feature."
http://www.everydns.net

192.9.9.3
207.181.101.4
207.181.101.5

Dunno

http://crowdfire.net - some kind of pseudo-hosting site?
http://www.thumblogger.com - adult hosting

Tracking

http://statcounter.com/free_web_stats.html
http://reinvigorate.net/

Link protection

http://www.protectlinks.com/