Hosting is one of the perennial problems.

Liberated Syndication established themselves as one of the key players. They still have what may be one of the premier specialty host sites going. My audio is published there altho it's completely backended and you'll probably never notice. What gave Libsyn the edge was a bandwidth and storage price package that set them apart in the market. What keeps them ahead is their "pro" package that gives great data on downloads, bandwidth use, and show management.

But back in the old days, the podosphere was filled with tales of podcasts that became instantly successful and which over flowed their bandwidth limits in a matter of a few days each month. When you're publishing a 50mb file once a week and getting 100 downloads, that's 20gb a month or more. When you break the 1000 listener or 5000 listener threshold, that can be a problem if your host provide throttles you at - say 80gb a month.

For my own stuff -- other than the audio -- I use Bluehost. I made a strategic decision not to create a separate feed of content to augment my novels, and I don't distribute my work except through the one channel, but if I were going to, I'd use Bluehost. They have a very reliable hosting service, the costs are very low (less than US$7 a month with a 2 year agreement), and have unlimited storage and bandwidth.

If I were going to do it, that's the one I'd pick.

Which ever one you pick, make sure you pay attantion to the storage and bandwidth limits. Numbers that bug your eyes out when you start will seem pretty small after you've been at it for a few months.

For some actual numbers, I think I'm burning about 300 gb a DAY in download bandwidth right now, and it'll go up by about 10% with the release of my next book in January. I'm really glad I'm not having to worry about needing to pay for any amount 100gb a month, or that my fans can't get the next episode because I capped out.

I've also heard that in some audio hosting sites (that compete with LibSyn), if you exceed a threshold you can be charged a lot without any warning.

I use Libsyn and they are great for what i need.

Only been going a year but had no problems at all.

We had been using GCast as our host, but they look to be going down beginning Feb. 1.

In looking around we found that GoDaddy has a blog/podcast service/division that looks pretty attractive. Anyone have experience (good/bad/indifferent) with GoDaddy?? Or, any other recomendations?

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I've always been with Bluehost.

My colleages who went with GoDaddy gave it up as fast as their contracts expired. Bad service, unreliable connections, poor support.

It was cheap, and they got what they paid for.

This was over 2 years ago now, so maybe they've cleaned up their acts. Dunno.

I'm still pleased with Bluehost.

I am hosted with GoDaddy and have had no problems other than one that was my own doing and GoDaddy helped me resolve it.

We went with GoDaddy - took about 4 days to get the site activated and we haven't yet migrated much to it, but I'll come back and let people know our thoughts once it fully up and we have a few episodes' experience with it.

The player does look pretty cool though.

Hi there, newbie here. I've been using Podbean to host both of my podcasts, and have never had a problem with them at all. They are very iTunes-friendly, as well.