Comments on: Podcast hosting: cheap or free?

By: doplr

doplr — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 08:23:24 +0000

Hi,

I’d like to inform you of my podcasting hosting service: http://doplr.com

Maybe you’d like to try it out and write a review.

Best of luck with your soundblog.

Grts,

Doplr

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:28:09 +0000

Truman, are you sure it was podbean that was offline? What I mean is, how are you sure it wasn’t some other issue, like your own ISP, or a DNS glitch? Most of the time, I find that these kind of services are very sensitive to the outage issue, and usually will at least acknowledge what and why it happened. Perhaps a little more info would be nice, but you might want to contact them (now that you can access their site), and ask if they experienced an outage during the period of time you couldn’t reach them.

By: Mark Boss

Mark Boss — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:06:16 +0000

thx for this

but,
do you know any good wordpress hosting services??

so far, i have tried http://myfreehoster.info to host my wordpress-cms

but i dont know ..

By: Truman

Truman — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:12:56 +0000

I tried PODBEAN, and it seemed really great for my first podcast, but today on at least 2 occaisions, their site was down!!

None of my stuff was accessible at all.

AND, there’s no way to even contact podbean except through their web site that was down.

I’m very disappointed. If the hosting company is not reliable it ain’t worth a penny.

When the site did get back up, there was no word or mention of the outage at all. no email to users, no nothin’.

podbean=bad service ; podbean=bad service ; podbean=bad service.

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By: John

John — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:43:27 +0000

Check out http://www.avmypodcast.com. They offer plans starting out at $5.00 per month, with unmetered bandwidth, support for audio and video podcasting, automatic iTunes submissions, and the best tech support. They also offer great tutorials on how to podcast.

By: Le Bishop

Le Bishop — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:50:50 +0000

If you use something like boomp3.com, along with webjay.org, it works out pretty nice, I’m pretty sure boomp3.com has unlimited bandwidth, and webjay.org is a free service.

By: Weina

Weina — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:19:18 +0000

Try Switchpod.com - a prominent podcast hosting company. It offers between 200 and 2000 mb of space. And It’s FREE

By: Scotty

Scotty — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:57:10 +0000

We use http://www.podomatic.com
Free to use.
500 Mb storage, 15 Gb / mth bandwidth.

By: podcrust

podcrust — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:01:49 +0000

for music creators, http://podcrust.com is free for use as long as you dont abuse it.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:17:32 +0000

The problem with Odeo is that they add a 3-second commercial to the beginning of your podcast. This file modification erases all embedded MP3 tags such as title, genre, author, artist, etc. - not so much of a problem if you use iTunes, but definitely a problem if you use Juice to download the podcast and then bring it up in Windows Media Player. The nice thing about Odeo is you can assign an image which shows up in your podcast when you add it to the iTunes store.

GarageBand.com also erases all embedded MP3 tags by converting your uploaded MP3 to a different bitrate. Another problem with GarageBand is that you can’t assign an image to your podcast.

I just emailed jellycast.com, and they don’t modify your MP3 file. You can assign an image to your podcast, and after only a $20 setup fee, your jellycast account is free for life. No size or bandwidth limits, unless you get really really popular.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:47:46 +0000

ODEO are really great, especially for beginners like me.

http://www.odeo.com/