Favicons (short for favorites icons) are those tiny icons you see beside the URL in your browser’s URL bar. Most sites uses these favicons to differentiate one from another when one open multiple tabs in his or her browser.

To have a favicon, you’ll have to upload the favicon.ico file into the root directory of a web server. However, those who are using the Blogger platform would have the default Blogger favicon uploaded. To change the orignial Blogger favicon to your personal one, you’d have to first host it somewhere. However, popular photo sharing platforms such as Flickr and Photobucket don’t support .ico images. Hence, this is when some image sharing/hosting sites that supports .ico images come in handy.

Here’s are 10 Free Favicon Hosting sites which you can try them out:

IconJ – lets you generate and host favicons

PicPanda – a popular favicon host that not only supports .ICO, but also JPEG, .JPG, .GIF, .BMP, .PNG, .TIF, and .TIFF

QFQY Image Hosting – allows you to upload up to 5 images at one go and supports .ICO, .JPEG, .JPG, .GIF and .PNG

HostanyImage – allows you to upload a maximum file of 10MB

Imageous.net – provides hotlinks for forums and websites and lets you upload a file of up to 2MB per file

Img Hype – a favicon hosting site that is based in Singapore

CDMazika – allows muptiple uploads

OogleToogle – another simple and easy-to-use favicon host

Pictigre – supports .JPEG, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, and .ICO

Image Boo Hosting – enables you to make your image private