Free Podcasting Hosts? 87
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?"
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?
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my /. url is a dreamhost referral and I put it there because I'm a happy customer and would recommend it to other people...if I happen to get a kickback that would be great (but look at the first poster in this thread, he suggested it without the ref ID...). Its kind of like a "thanks for telling me about this place" move to use somebody's refferal. The one caveat with dreamhost is they occasionally have coupon codes
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Another way to look at it: Helping out the OP is the topic. Recommendations that have no credibility because the poster has a financial interest are of no help to the OP. Therefore, they are Offtopic, and an acceptable w
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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Re:DreamHost corrections (Score:1)
They don't enforce CPU minutes. If you use a lot, they may move you to an underused server. If you use a crazy amount, which is rare, they'll suggest a dedicated server.
As for killing processes, I find that if I 'nice' my long-running processes, they don't get killed.
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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 modules, visit the
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DON'T pay, and build your own? (Score:2)
And I've been meaning to get around to hacking up something that can automate the generation of the RSS "podcast" feed which describes what has been uploaded. "RSS is simple" is
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I started a podcast back in April and went with a 50GB a month plan and quickly exceeded my bandwidth. The next month I passed the hat to all parties involved in the podcast and collected enough money to get an older box (P3/40GB disk) running over a 10Mbit connection w/ 4TB metered bandwidth (more than I could possibly use). I'm lucky to have a buddy that runs a small hosting company piggybacked in the same facility as 2 very large ISPs in Atlanta.
When you're doing a podcast you need to really consider
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?
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Comma (Score:2, Funny)
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Ourmedia? (Score:4, Informative)
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all the best,
drew
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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)
Generate the xml feed locally (Score:1)
When I started a podcast project last year, I used FeedForAll to manually generate the feed. I had no special access to the site, so I downloaded new episodes to get the mp3 tag info (time, length), added the episodes and uploaded the update.
Since then, I've written a quick perl script that runs every hour and grabs all the information in
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 question asker, are completely different.
Yes, taking a spare computer and setting up host is leet. It's pretty badass. But it's pretty obvious by the question itself that the poster is not capable of doing that. They have probably never compiled a line of c
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Slashdot Lite; Now with Turbo XL5000 technology and bluing for extra whiteness - Your problems that that we don't give a fuck about.
KFG
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Oh, give me a break. I'm not leet. I'm not badass. Although I'm fond of writing my own HTML (because in my day, we had to), I've never written any C++, the only Perl or PHP coding I've done has been modifications to other people's work, and I'm not particularly fluent in CSS or XML. The only RSS I've ever touched was installing some blog software... and to be honest, all I did there was follow written step-by-step directions. You're impressed that I set up a spare computer as a web server? Heh. You m
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You have shown me how wrong I am to think that someone should put an effort into something that they want. It was also wrong of me to assume that someone might want to learn something new and expand their skills. I am a flawed person for feeling that these things are a virtue. I will attempt to amend my ways.
I'll also try to use less sarcasm in the future.
P2P CDN Distribution (eg, Red Swoosh) (Score:2, Interesting)
http://FreeVlog.org (Score:1)
I believe Archive.org does allow FTP uploading. http://ourmedia.org/ [ourmedia.org] uses a proprietary uploader, or did when we used it earlier this year.
You could also look at http://blip.tv/ [blip.tv] and http://revver.com./ [revver.com.] Both provide RSS and hosting for free and with Revver you can actually make money.
We use http://libsyn.com/ [libsyn.com] for some of our media hosting as well. They are good, reliable and cheap. They have FT
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)
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Personally I would prefer to just pay for my own hosting and run wordpress.
Godaddy (Score:1)
I registered a
With each domain you get the 5g storage, and 250gb of bandwidth for free with ads.
I pay for the
If you don't mind the ads, you can do free all the way.
There are ads on the
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DreamHost, Site5, or BlueHost are much better alternatives.
Use a PHP-capable host, install Podcast Generator (Score:2)
Funny Title (Score:1, Funny)
10 years of innovation, 10 years of creativity, 10 years of asskickery..but "existence"? Do you have nothing better to say?
That's like telling your wife..oh, never mind.
You guys would fail in the jungle that is today's market.
Pod-Serve.com (Score:1)
Check out this hosting community ! (Score:1)
They do RSS, Podcasts, Bittorrent, reviews, etc... Pretty good, even if you just want to listen to some nice free music
How about rackspace? (Score:1)
RSSPECT!! (Score:1)
BluBrry (Score:1)
Try this (Score:2)
http://www.ipodnetworks.com/ [ipodnetworks.com]
Smells like another business oportunity for Google (Score:1)
free podcasting host (Score:1)
You get what you pay for (Score:1)
A year ago I searched around for cheap hosting - I didn't want to pay a fortune for hosting my files.
For $7-8 per month (US) you can get 20 gig storage, 300 gig per month transfer. Spend a little bit of money and keep "total" control over your podcast. Use FeedBurner to help take the pain out of RSS creation, or even go for the multitu