So, I’m part of an org that operates two podcasts. One is hosted on Podbean, the other Libsyn. They’ve both just put their prices up (with no extra features or increase in space or bandwidth) by almost 50% so we’re looking to move.

I want to give Castopod a go and have a VPS that could easily manage it, with plenty of space and bandwidth but finding unbiased opinions on its features/quality is difficult. So, if anyone has any experiences of self hosting it, how good/stable/reliable it is or things to look out for or features it lacks I’d love to hear about them.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Serving audio files is pretty easy as long as you don’t have a million people trying to DL a new 5GB episode simultaneously.

    I wonder if that could be rate limited with some mechanism when OP blows up?

    I haven’t streamed audio to a server in a decades since I ran an internet radio station pre-napster. We were using ShoutCast servers paid for by IM Radio Networks (now defunct) then. All we had to do was pay for ASCAP/SEASAC,BMI, SOCAN etc license coverage. It wasn’t a podcast tho, but rather 24/7 broadcast. With few thousand people tuning in every day, we ate up some serious bandwidth I can tell you.

    /end reminiscing