If you want your web site or your personal blog be available to other people, you have either to place your website to a public server or use your PC as a web server. Here’s a list of resources you can use to set up your own servers.

MySQL database is the world’s most popular database. It won its popularity for high reliability, fast performance, and ease of usage. MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Windows, Linux, OS/X, AIX, HP-UX, Netware.

Apache HTTP Server is a robust, powerful, and freely-distributed source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. Apache became the most popular web server on the Internet in 1996 and holds this position till nowadays.

PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

PhpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin handles the administration of MySQL over the Web. It creates and drops databases, tables, deletes edits and adds fields.

Linux is a free operating system that runs a good number of today’s servers.

XAMPP is an Apache Distribution for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. It includes the Apache web server, PHP, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, Perl, and a FTP server.

SquirrelMail is a webmail package written in PHP. It has low system requirements and is easy to install and configure.

AppServer’s package includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin. It doesn’t take much time to install. You can setup web server, database server in 1 minute.

ArGoSoft Mail Server is full SMTP/IMAP/POP3/Finger server intended for all Windows platforms. It’s very compact, easy to install, has minimum memory requirements.

Cherokee - Web server software that supports FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Apache compatible log files, and much more.

SurgeMail is high performance and easy in use server software. It’s perfect for Windows, Mac OSX, UNIX, FreeBSD and others. SurgeMail includes integrated Antispam Server, Webmail Server, Antivirus Server, Blog Server, Groupware Server, and more.

FileZilla Server is a free FTP solution including both a client and a server. FileZilla Client is a reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client. It runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, OSX and more. It features powerful site manager, configurable speed limits, network configuration wizard, FTP-Proxy support, and more.

KF Web Server is a free HTTP Server that is able to host an unlimited number of web sites. KF Web Server is easy to use and has minimum system requirements. It’s absolutely free (no licence or time limits). Works great with PHP, PERL, Python and other scripting languages. Supports the two industry standard log file formats, NCSA and W3C.

NanoWeb is a secure and extensible HTTP server written in PHP, distributed GNU General Public License. Its main features are modular architecture, HTTP/1.1 compliance, htpasswd, MySQL, PostgreSQL and LDAP authentication support, proxy server extension, Apache compatible log format, MySQL logging, and more.

BulletProof FTP Server for Windows allows users to monitor FTP Server activity and traffic, offers advanced IP-Based Access-Control, FTP Messaging Support and more. It comes at $39.95 USD. Free trial is available.

Cpanel and WebHost Manager is a great solution for hosting administration automation. It is packed with features, secure and stable platform for web hosting. Key features include free installation, complete server administration interface, unlimited domains per server, free virus scanner.

phpBB provides highly customisable set of key features in addition to a standards compliant interface. phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

Forumer - is a popular free phpBB forum hosting service. It provides over 30 free skins, great custom portal, your own live chatroom.

Conforums - offers free completely customizable message boards. This allows you to create any kind of web community you wish, whether it be for a personal website, business communications or even a way to manage data.

MakeForum prowides powerful, free and fully customazible forums. Yor free message board will be instntly activated - all that is required is your email address. It takes less than 30 seconds to have your forum fully functional and installed. Basic features: it is completely free, allows unlimited forums, posts and users, unlimited storage and bandwidth, more than 250 templates, supports all languages, free subdomains.

Hyperboards offer free forum solutions. Key features: no pop-up ads, custom pages and intuitive templating engine, global member accounts, custom PM boxes and filtering system, friends list, basic and advanced skin editing modes, custom images, and more.

Nable - free forums hosting, provides free discussion group and mailing list archive.

FreeForums - free phpbb forum hosting offer more features with less annoyances than any other free forum host on the web.

WowBB allows users to see if there are new posts in a topic, sort topics in any order. Moderators can make any topic an announcement or important topic. These topics always appear at the top regardles off the sort order, highlight noteworthy topics that can be easily accessed from the selected topics tab, edit topic titles and descriptions, move topics between forums, and more.

Blursoft MetaForum comes with an easy to use moderation system. Everyone has the power to moderate, with more active and better contributing users garnering higher ratings. With MetaForum there is no need to refresh the page to see new posts or threads, they just appear in front of your eyes, as it happens.

ProBoards - Internet’s premier forum provider, hosting over 17 million members at 2 million forums.

Sudden Launch is a perfect place to start your own web community. It’s also a perfect way to bring your community, group, club or organization to the web. An aesthetically pleasing environment and an easy to use interface makes your message board a delight to visit and re-visit.

GoBoardz allows to embed Revver videos in your posts. You can now have a graphic avatar, so other people can quickly spot your posts. Your avatar can be configured in your account settings. All topics allow for Digg’ing, and del.icio.us linking. All forums support RSS feeds of active topics.

CuteCast shows users, guests and robots (eg: Google spider) online status, supports cookie and URI-based sessions, supports RSS topics syndication, uploadable avatars and attachments, automatically creates thumbnail for image files.
Unlimited users and posts

Box.net offers up to 1GB of storage of files up to 10MB size each. Store your documents on Box so that you can access them from anywhere.

MediaMax offers a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files. Up to 25GB of free storage, 10MB per file.

MegaUpload allows to send files up to 500MB, offers ad-financed free and affordable premium online storage, sophisticated uploading and downloading tools, and high-volume business accounts including pay-per-download.

Mofile - provides up to 1GB of sharing storage. Each file you upload to Mofile will be represented by a unique 16-digit ‘Pickup Code’. If you give this code to your friends, they will be able to download the file at Mofile.com by inputting the code for ‘Pickup’.

Mediafire allows to upload up to 10 files of up to 100MB each at a time, unlimited storage. You can link to files from your MySpace page, your blog, or forums, upload an unlimited number of files to share with friends and family or storage, use folders to easily share groups of files or create galleries for all your images. No registration necessary and no software to install.

DivShare - Upload a file, store it forever, embed it anywhere you want.

BooMP3 offers free unlimited audio hosting. You can upload your music and podcasts to place it at: your website, Myspace, LiveJournal, Orkut, or any blog.

4shared - offers 5 GB virtual drive that you can use for storing your files. The maximum size of a file you are able to upload is 100 MB.

RapidSahre allows to share an unlimited number of files up to 100MB in size. With their 1-Click web hosting solution you can put your files online for free with just one click fast and easy. You decide, who will be able to access your file.

GigaSize free account offers unlimited files storage - 600 MB/file. Files are stored for 90 days. Very convenient file organizer.

FilesUpload is a good alternative for sending large time- and money-wasting e-mail attachments. It offers is a free file hosting service. The scheme is simple: once a file has been uploaded to the site, you can just e-mail the link to the recipient. The service is free and does not require any complex program to be installed.

Xdrive features: back up your valuable files - your music, photos and more - automatically. Conveniently access all your files from anywhere. Easily share your files with friends and family. Get 5GB for Free.

Badongo’s free account allows you to use additional features and tools. The Badongo Buddy software requires Free Registration for the uploader function and Premium if you want to download as well. With the Badongo Buddy you can drag and drop multilple files from your Desktop and they will upload directly into your Badongo account.

zUpload is 100% free. You can send/upload up to 500MB per file and can upload as many files as you want. Unlimited downloads and there are no bandwidth limitations. The file will be deleted in 30 days of inactivity. All file extensions allowed except scripts like cgi, pl, php, asp.

FileDEN provides free file hosting and online storage service. It makes it easy to share files across the internet with friends, family, work associates or anyone else. It allowa the users to direct link to their files also giving the oppurtunity to embed your files into your webpages, myspace or other social networking profiles. Files stored on File Den are kept on secure systems in the a secure datacentre, Atlanta.

OneDump free unlimited and secure image, text and audio hosting. Upload, link and share your files. Create organized file collections and beautiful image galleries to share with friends. Unlimited storage space. For more information on file types and file sizes accepted please visit our help section. Coming Soon to OneDump - Free Video Hosting and Sharing !

BigFilebox is an online space on a BigFilebox’s server that lets you upload and distribute electronic files of every type. It’s always on and always available. Free account includes 1 filebox, 250MB storage, 1GB transfer.

Boxstr is a simple way to store and share all of your files safely on the web. You can store up to 5gb of files with a free account or up to 50 with a Pro account. BOXSTr loves secure file storage so please, join up and enjoy the security and reliability that is BOXSTr

Exaroom - Upload files, make a profile, let friends browse and download your files, access your files from anywhere.

Webcargot lets you send large files via email, without the need to reduce files to attachment size. High-resolution scans, graphics, illustrations, powerpoints, storyboards, broadcast audio and video.

In.solit.us allows you to store an unlimited number of files, with unlimited disk space and bandwidth usage, indefinitely, allowing you to choose among different types of share (private, public, by user, by group or by generating private download links).

FileHo offers unlimited storage, you can choose to share your files or keep them private.

FreeFileHosting - Free hosting of files up to 3MB in size.

MyFabrik - 1GB of media storage you can share and embed.

QuickSharing - Up to 500MB per file, deleted after 30 days of inactivity.

Supload.com - Unlimited image hosting for use with sites such as eBay and MySpace.

TagAndFile - Store up to 100MB for free.

Tilefile - Upload, organize and share your files with friends.

Woofiles - Up to 1GB of storage.

Flypicture - Unlimited hosting of pictures, audio or movie files, free use for blogs and auctions.

SendSpace is the best way to send large files too big for email attachments to friends, family and businesses, anywhere in the world. SendSpace allows to send files up to 300MB.

MegaUpload is a leading provider of online storage. MegaUpload allows to send files up to 500MB, offers ad-financed free and affordable premium online storage, sophisticated uploading and downloading tools, and high-volume business accounts including pay-per-download.

MediaMax is focused on storage, but also offers the option to share your files with others. With a free account, you can store files up to 25GB.

MailBigFile - allows you without registration send files up to 100MB. MailBigFile also claims unlimited bandwidth, but since they cap it at 25 downloads per month, there are indeed limits.

YouSendIt - allows you to send files up to 100MB without creating an account. Upon uploading a file to YouSendIt, an email is sent to the recipient, where they are given a link to download the file. The download is available for 7 days and includes advertising on the page.

FileFactory - Send up to 25 files at a time at 300MB per file.

Driveway - Send an unlimited number of files up to 500MB each in size.

zUpload offers up to 500MB to share a single file. A unique URL is generated for each file and is available for 30 days.

Localhostr - Upload a file up to 50MB in size.

Arunalabs - Send large files to anyone on the net.

DropSend - free account provides you with 250MB of storage and up to 5 sends per month. Unlike some of the other services, you have to create an account in order to send a file. The company also offers a desktop client for both Windows and Mac.

Bigfilez - Send a file up to 500MB in size to multiple recipients.

Bigupload - Send files up to 500MB in size.

BoxCloud - Up to 1GB of free sending.

MoveDigital - drag-and-drop interface.

JustUpIt - Send a file up to 120MB.

Jagbox - Upload a file up to 100MB in size, allow to set an expiration time.

Sharebee - Upload a file, share the link, no mention of limitations on size.

LeapFILE - Send files of various sizes, 7 day trial.

Online File Folder -by GoDaddy.com gives you secure access to your files from any computer with an Internet connection. Whether you’re at home, in the office or on the road, Online File Folder is your easy and affordable file management solution. $5.99 a year for 50MB.

Yuntaa.com is currently in Beta mode and offering Free Accounts for everyone. Your Free 1GB account will remain Free even after it moves into production mode. Paid Accounts and Free Accounts both have complete access to the following features: Hard disk synchronisation, backup/restore functions, file sharing, photo, video and audio sharing, unlimited blogs, and more.

iOmega iStorage provides an ultra-secure online data and photo storage. Automatic backup of your files and photos.

Carbonite.com - automatic backup your entire hard drive . Installation is a snap. It works quietly and continuously in the background protecting your data. $49.95 per year for unlimited backup after your free trial.

Mozy.com - is a simple and safe way to back up your data on your computer. A copy of your data is stored in a secure, remote location for safekeeping.

MediaMaster.com - unlimited storage of your music collection.

Steekr.com - Online backup of digital media, free up to 1GB, subscriptions for more. Stream your stored music for listening anywhere, share files with friends.

CrashPlan.com automatically notes changes to backup and then does so once per day. It gives you freedom in choosing your backup destinations. Back up your new Mac to your old PC, your laptop to a friend’s desktop, whichever you want.

Ironmountain.com provides professional backup solutions to small business as well as to government agencies.

IBackup - Anywhere from 5GB to 300GB of storage. Backup MS SQL Server databases to your IBackup account without interrupting the running MS SQL Server services.

gDisk - is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.

Mp3Tunes.com - unlimited free storage of your music collection, streaming play of the songs from anywhere.

Orbitfiles.com - 6GB of storage for your files, automated backup, ability to share with family and friends.

Omnidrive.com - backup anywhere from 1GB for free, use as backup you can access from anywhere, or use as a file host to use on other sites.

ElephantDrive.com offers 1GB of free storage, automated backups.

Titanize.com - Online backup that allows you to snyc with other devices and share links to your files.

SOSOnlineBackup.com - Automated backup of your essential files.

File123.com - 1GB of space for free, up to 10GB of backup for as low as $4.95 a month.

Trueshare.com - Secure off-site data backup, packages as small as 3GB up to 1TB.

Allmydata.com - unlimited storage and automated backup for $4.99 a month.

Datapreserve.com - Automated off-site remote backups.

Angelbackup.com - $1.95 for 2GB of automated backup.

Egnyte.com - Backup your files, store them securely, export them back to your computer in a crash.

MyOtherDrive.com - Store up to 5GB of files, use as backup or share.

Flickr features one of the best online photo management and sharing application on the Internet. You can show off your favorite photos to the world, securely or privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.

Photobucket - is a site for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos, and graphics. It stores thousands of photos and hours of video. Photobucket offers free tools for making slide shows of photos, videos and music, and users can share their media with friends by email, IM and mobile phone.

Slide.com - lets you use photos and other digital content to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you. With a super easy set-up, clean interface and multiple transition and theme options, Slide is among the most popular tools for self expression available on the web today. Slide can be embedded onto any website, viewed on your desktop or shared with your friends or fans.

Imageshack - is an intuitive and easy-to-use free media hosting service. It can be used to upload images, flash files, and movies, and share them with friends using any imaginable means

Smugmug - easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print.

MyPhotoAlbum allows to create a personalized online photo album. Easily upload, store and share your photosand share videos, create quality photo books, photo calendars, all the latest photo giftsand receive high quality digital photo printing.

Webshots - provides you with a variety of ways to enjoy photos and videos. Free and premium memberships with tons of storage you’ll never run out. You can access Webshots on the go with Webshots Mobile.

FindMyHosting - a free, unbiased and very comprehensive web hosting resource, thousands of web hosting plans and customer reviews.

WebHostingTalk reviews, advice, and discussions on web hosting related news and services.

WebHostingUnleashed offers search and compare tools, was started as a place users could leave reviews of web hosting companies in order to help others.

FreeWebSpace is a searchable guide to free web hosting. To find a free webhost you can use the simple search or advanced free hosting search.

Realmetrics - is the leading publisher of unbiased metrics for online service providers enabling customers to choose a service provider with confidence.

WhoIsHostingThis - is a tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name, and you’ll get a link to the company that’s hosting this particular domain.

Blogger is a great site to start blogging for beginners. You don’t have to deal with HTML and CSS every time you want to change the look of your blog. With the Layouts feature, you can drag-and-drop to move parts of your page around, and choose new fonts and colors with easy mouse clicks.

Wordpress.com allows to change the look of your blog with over 60 attractive themes. The themes range from professional to fun to crazy. You can switch themes instantly with just a click of a button. If you’re a CSS pro, you can also customize your CSS code. A built-in rich text editor makes it easy to create great looking posts. You can upload your own photos or include images from other services like Photobucket or Flickr.

Live Journal is an online journaling community, where people from around the world share stories, discuss topics and keep in touch with friends. It’s a free service that you can use for meeting people and creating bonds through writing and sharing. You can insert photos, videos, and widgets into your journal from popular sites like YouTube, Photobucket, Meebo, and Slide.

Bravenet.com ad-supported free web hosting is loaded with great features: 1.5GB bandwidth,
50MB disk space, easy website builders.

Windows Live Spaces is the place to share with confidence. Make your experience better with special offers just for you.

Vox.com’s built-in editor, you’ll easily combine words, images, video and audio to create a vibrant record of your life’s moments — big or small. No more oversized email attachments and bounced messages and worries about overwhelming friends and family with inconvenient intrusions. With Vox, you can choose the privacy level for every post, every picture, every sound clip, every video.

Xanga is an online community for you and your friends. You can easily start your own free weblog, share photos and videos, and meet new friends, too!

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Weebly.com - Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly. Videos, pictures, maps, and text are added to your website by simply dragging them from the Weebly bar to your webpage.

Blog.com offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.

Tumblr.com allows to post text, photos, videos, quotes, and links from any web page in one click. You can use your own dot-com domain name. Upload MP3s just as easily as text and photos.

Etribes.com allows to share securely by password protecting your content. You can add all your photos, organise them in albums, add descriptions and view them as slideshows.

Multiply.com makes it easy to create, share and discuss your blog, photos, videos and music with more of the people you know, and less of the people you don’t.

Squarespace.com is an exceptionally tuned publishing system for managing websites and blogs. Squarespace is for bloggers, authors, teachers, lawyers, doctors, musicians, small businesses.

ClearBlogs.com offers instant publishing, fully customizable templates, WYSIWYG HTML editor, sub-directory URLs , spam protection, RSS feeds & pinging, friends-only entries, public and private entries, multiple-authors , permanent links, member support forums, upload photos and music, IP banning.

SoulCast.com allows anonymously blogging –uncensored and without constraints. Write about your life and receive real feedback from people who get you.

Open Diary.com offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features. It’s a great way to connect with friends, keep your life online, and learn about yourself. The best part is that you get your own interactive diary, with unlimited storage and posts.

Terapad.com offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.

ShoutPost.com is a platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.

BlogYx.com is a blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.

Blogabond is dedicated to travel blogs with map integration. If you’re a world traveler, have got photos to post, stories to tell, and, well, travel to blog about, this one is for you.

BusyThumbs - free moblogs for the next generation. Designed for camera phone images.

Freevlog is dedicated to video blogging.

Trippert - travel blogs. Share your travels with the world, find new and cool places to go, add photos and descriptions.

Xanco is a free mobile weblog, or lifelog. You can take photos or shoot videos with your camera phone and share them with your friends or family anywhere in the world using a lifelog. Add a subject and description and simply upload them to Xanco using email or MMS.

BlogCheese - offers video blogging. With BlogCheese you can use your webcam to: stay in touch with friends, tell a story, sing a song—you’re talented!

Word Count Journal is a new blog format where you write one word your first day, two words the second, three words the thist, etc. By the end of a non-leap year you’ll have written a total of 66.795 words, more words than most novels.