Podium hosting

What is hosting?

Hosting is the online space needed to store your podcasts so that anyone with an Internet connection can download and listen to them.

There are two main things to bear in mind when it comes to hosting; storage and bandwidth.

Storage

You’ll need enough storage to keep as many podcasts and podcasts episodes online as you want to make available at a time. You may want to archive several, or even all, of your podcasts for your listeners to download.

The amount of storage you need for your audio files will depend on the following:

• The length of each episode
• The audio quality of your MP3 files (the higher the quality the bigger the file)
• How often you produce podcasts / episodes
• How many podcasts / episodes you want to make available at a time to your listeners

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data that your web host allows to be transferred to and from your web site (some hosts set daily or monthly limits). This is a big issue in podcasting because the audio files that are being downloaded by your listeners are large. This means you’ll have a lot of transfer from your site. In order to ensure you have enough bandwidth you need to try and estimate how many MBs each of your podcast files will be. You’ll also need this to calculate how much data transfer you’ll have from your web site.

To calculate your monthly bandwidth usage:

1. Take the average size of each of your podcasts files
2. Multiply that by the number people that download each episode
3. Multiply that by the number of episodes you release each month

If you’re just getting started, you’ll have to estimate how big an audience you want to be able to handle from your site.

Example: If you have 300 people download a podcast that is 20 MB you will have about 20 x 300 = 6000 MB or 6 GB of data transfer for each episode. If you release four episodes each month this adds up to 24 GB of transfer per month.

Our hosting service takes the hassle out of sourcing online space for you to store your podcasts. All you need to do is tell us that you want this when you order.

What’s more, our hosting package provides unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth!

Podium hosting

You may wish to choose to take out our hosting service which includes access to the new Podium Community Portal.

At present the hosting capacity available to you is unlimited but we reserve the right to change this at any time.

If you have any queries, or to order please call us on 0161 459 7800, email sales@lightbox-ed.com, or fax 0845 017 7643.

RM Lightbox reserve the right to change pricing without prior notification.

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