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Best Way To host your podcasts?

by Tonylee93
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What is the best Way to host your podcasts? I want to jump into Podcasts I have been researching and doing some learning about podcasting. I am excited to start this, I was thinking I should just host it on my blog, it will be easy and the podcasts will be in the same niche as my blog anyway. The thing is that I keep hearing podcasting takes a lot of space when hosting it yourself? Any advice on the best way to host a podcast would be great! Thank you for all your help Warrior Forum and taking the time to listen!
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  • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
    I use Libsyn, Very cheap and unlimited downloads allowed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tonylee93
    But I already have hostgator, It wouldn`t make any sense ive im paying for more space from a different company and all. Right?

    I guess its something that I need to think about still!
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    • Profile picture of the author JDBradley
      Originally Posted by Tonylee93 View Post

      But I already have hostgator, It wouldn`t make any sense ive im paying for more space from a different company and all. Right?

      I guess its something that I need to think about still!
      libsyn is hosting just for podcasts, it's so easy to use you just use it like a blog, upload your mp3 and it will automatically syndicate to iTunes for you. you then just need to show iTunes your feed URL. take a look anyway libsyn.com
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  • Profile picture of the author EmmaWilliams
    Just sign up for a host that is within your budget. Then plug the site away so that you will have listeners tuning in to your updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tonylee93
    That sounds good! I have it all the plugin, the Mic is on the way and the Hosting is good as well. I just hope to be able to create some good content with it Thank you for your advice!
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Gram
    I would recommend Libsyn also. If your podcast gets very many downloads (which is the goal), you don't want to host it on your website host.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    Originally Posted by Tonylee93 View Post

    The thing is that I keep hearing podcasting takes a lot of space when hosting it yourself?
    It depends on the kilobits per second. For spoken audio, 24 kbps is supposed to be enough. I use 32 kbps just in case there are people with very sensitive ears. Sony Sound Forge makes it easy to adjust this. It was about $65 when I bought it, but Audacity can also do this for free.

    I recently downloaded an hour of audio at 128 kbps and it was in stereo. It was just a talk, and both stereo tracks were exactly the same. It was the most inefficient way possible to produce what was actually a mono playback.

    When I got rid of the extra track and reduced the kbps, the file size was less than a tenth of the original and didn't sound different.

    I don't do podcasts, but do have some recordings on sites. They aren't big enough to be a problem with my server space.
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