{"id":1449,"date":"2009-04-18T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T21:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2009-04-18T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T21:05:36","slug":"podcast-hosting-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/18\/podcast-hosting-options","title":{"rendered":"Podcast hosting options?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking around to find a host for podcasts, while toying with the idea of hosting it in Malaysia on my box as well. Self hosting has the advantage that its free, but at the same time, it may not be as fast for others outside the country, and then I&#8217;ve got to worry about it being a bandwidth hog.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/podcast_hosting_audio_video_blog_hosting_features\">PodBean<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libsyn.com\/index.php?&#038;mode=logout&#038;message=\">libsyn<\/a>. They all tend to have the same feature set: storage space that grows on a monthly basis, unmetered bandwidth, all starting at about USD$5\/month. PodBean seems to offer just that little bit more, it seems, with video podcasting being supported just as well (this is a reason why the self-hosting mechanism isn&#8217;t one I&#8217;m after).<\/p>\n<p><b>So, do you podcast? What do you use? 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Self hosting has the advantage that its free, but at the same time, it may not be as fast for others outside the country, and then I&#8217;ve got to worry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Podcast%20hosting%20options%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F18%2Fpodcast-hosting-options&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Then, we stopped at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2858,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/itunes-ate-my-podcasts","url_meta":{"origin":1449,"position":4},"title":"iTunes ate my podcasts","date":"23\/1\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"iTunes is fixed now (11.1.3) but somewhere in-between it broke and deleted all of my podcast downloads as well as the subscriptions. It has been over four months that I've gone without listening to podcasts and I can't say that I miss it hugely. 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