Two Options for Hosting Your Podcast Audio

September 3, 2008

Special Series of Articles: "Podcast Production"

As you probably know, you’ll need to upload your MP3 of your podcast to a web hosting service. By doing so, you’ll be making the audio available for download by anyone with Internet access.

Sounds great, doesn’t it?

Did you know you had options as to where to upload? Well, now you do and here they are:

Free Podcast Hosting Services

The easiest solution is to host your MP3 at a podcasting hosting service, such as LibSyn.com or HipCast.com. These are wonderful web services that will not only store the MP3 file of
your podcast, but also provide you with some statistics including number of downloads.

Regular Web Hosting Services

If you currently have a web host, for example, the company that is already hosting your web-
site, you can just as easily work with this set-up. You may need your webmaster to assist you
with configuring this part, however in short, you’ll need to create a new directory on the server
called “podcasts” and upload the MP3 file to that directory using FTP, short for File Transfer
Protocol, which is the standard means of adding new files to a website.

At the end of this step, you should have your first episode uploaded to a web hosting provider.