Free favicon hosting sites - ones to avoid!

Today's mission was to find a new free host for my blog's favicon.  As iconj seems to have disappeared off the face of the WWW after recently being hacked, an alternative solution was needed - a job evidently easier said than done.

After typing a myriad of keyword alternatives in to Google a trend was beginning to appear.  All of the sites claiming to offer free hosting, or blogs containing links to sites that offer it, either didn't actually offer hosting at all, or the links pointed to sites that were now defunct.

Here's a list of sites not to use.  WARNING: clicking on some results in porn, escort services or random gambling offers popping up.

• http://www.oogletoogle.com/
• http://www.shokimages.com/
• http://www.picpanda.com/
• http://www.imageboo.com/
• http://cdmazika.com/
• http://www.myfavatar.com/
• http://www.iconj.com

And here's some sites that may initially claim to support .ico formats, but don't.

• http://www.my-image-host.com/
• http://www.myupload.org/
• http://www.qfqy.com/
• http://www.freeimagehosting.in/
• http://www.imageboo.com/

But then finally, through the mists came a site that would actually do as I asked: provide free hosting; let me simply upload my favicon and then provide the code - hurrah!

• http://www.1pixelhost.com/ - I salute you.

Now I'm sure there's plenty more sites out there (that aren't as easy to find - clearly!) which offer the same service, but once you've found what you're looking for, you don't carry on looking...

Lou_geek