Chapter 7Upload Your Podcast

When you create a podcast, you create an MP3 file. For people to download your MP3 file, it must be stored somewhere on the Internet. You basically have two types of places on the Net that you can store your MP3 files: on servers that you own or pay for or on third-party servers. In both cases, you have two worries: How big are my podcast files, which plays into the amount of storage you have on the server, and how popular are my podcasts, which affects the costs of your bandwidth. In other words, the larger and more popular the podcast, the more it’s going to cost you.

Many options are available to you, and your choices are going to be affected by how much money you want to spend, how much control you want over your ...

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