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Free Podcasting Hosts?
Posted by
Cliff
on Sat Oct 14, 2006 02:48 PM
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TheZorch asks: "I'm looking for a free online Podcast hosting site which offers RSS feeds. The feeds are important for submitting to iTunes. I've found Odeo, however uploading to the site is difficult and hangs about half-way through, most of the time. Currently, my Podcasts are being stored at Archive.org, the Creative Commons Internet Archive, but the site doesn't generate RSS feeds which allow you to post your podcasts on iTunes. Uploading large files via HTTP is a pain even on a cable modem. I'd prefer to be able to do it via FTP. Does anyone know of a good free Podcasting host with RSS feeds and reliable uploads for large files?"
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Pay, and build your own? (Score:3, Insightful)
I've no idea if there are any off-the-shelf, open source 'podcasting' packages available (any suggestions, anyone?), but RSS is very simple and it could be worth learning just enough PHP to write your own, incredibly basic system for generating it yourself.
But wait, this is the difficult solution, isn't it?
Re:Pay, and build your own? (Score:4, Informative)
www.podomatic.com
Re:Pay, and build your own? (Score:5, Informative)
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Dreamhost is only good for the terabyte of transfer. Forgot trying to code anything on it. They massively oversell their hardware. If you read their fine print, you get 30 minutes of CPU a day. You'll eat through CPU way before transfer.
I wrote a Ruby on
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Install Drupal [drupal.org], audio.module [drupal.org], and playlist.module [drupal.org].
Too technical for /.? (Score:2)
It should be pretty simple to setup. Buy hosting, untar the core package and
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Dreamhost (Score:3, Interesting)
And I'm Looking for a Free Lunch! (Score:5, Funny)
The lunch should be tasty, but nutritionally balanced. I'm thinking it should start with a small salad, tossed greens, crushed pepper, oil & vinegar, nothing too fancy. Some porto bello mushrooms would be nice. Then perhaps a small cup of soup, either a light tomato or some gazpacho. Some of that freshly-grated parmesan would go great with either, I'm thinking. For the main event, no big deal, howza bout some roast beef, thinly sliced, on a French baquette, lightly buttered, and some au jus to dip it in, A half-bottle of a good Aussie Shiraz to help it down. Coffee and cookies for dessert.
You let me know how your search works out; I'll keep you posted on mine, 'kay?
Comma (Score:2, Funny)
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Ourmedia? (Score:4, Informative)
libsyn (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.libsyn.com/ [libsyn.com]
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Libsyn, Libsyn, Libsyn (Score:4, Informative)
I've been podcasting [libsyn.com] with Libsyn for almost a year and a half, and I would recommend them heartily over any free services out there.
The basic Libsyn accounts costs $5/month for 100MB upload a month, then $10/month for 250MB upload, scaling upwards. If you are using the basic account, and say one month you need to bump upwards for more space, there is a $5.00 dollar charge to change service levels, and no charge to scale back down. This is an excellent option, if you have one particularly busy month out of the year, and don't necessarily need the more expensive account all the time. There is also no bandwidth limit.
There is an ftp upload, as well as other features like future publishing (uploading a podcast, and having it published, i.e made available at a future date). Libsyn is probably in the 99.5% uptime bracket. Maybe once a month there are a few hours of downtime for upgrades, or the occasional hardware problem. Users are always notified of these events, and these aren't an issue for me, given the overall excellent quality of the service.
Libsyn RSS feeds are automatic, and are actually integrated with the Feedburner feed service, which provides scads more functionality than the basic vanilla RSS. There are also a host of Podcast content listing sites out there, that automatically index all Libsyn feeds, so without any effort on your part, your podcast will be indexed on probably 20 or more Podcast aggregators.
As for iTunes. When iTunes first starting listing Podcasts, all Libsyn feeds were automatically included in their Podcast store, but this has been tightened up recently. Podcasts now have to jump through more hoops to get listed, and generally seem to have to have an established track record. Try to get on iTunes anyway you can though, as over 80% of my initial listeners come through iTunes (though this trends down towards 2/3's over time for each individual Podcast).
Feedburner? (Score:2)
Make one? (Score:3)
Pay for it. If you don't value what you have to say enough to sacrifice a little for it, no one else wants to hear it either.
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You poor soul (Score:2, Insightful)
While I am extremely impressed by your ability to set up a home server, I think the category of nerd (not used in the derogatory fashion) that you are and the category of nerd of the qu
P2P CDN Distribution (eg, Red Swoosh) (Score:2, Interesting)
Podshow (Score:2)
Podshow [podshow.com] do it all for free - if you don't count the little advert at the end. The site is bright and I think it is nicely laid out.
Podshow is definitely thebest free option (Score:3, Informative)
Use a PHP-capable host, install Podcast Generator (Score:2)
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