may I host a music podcast and review blog? 100mb+ audio files

[joeygc]

I want to serve weekly music podcasts through itunes using the free hosting, this will mean using around 2gb of space to store mp3 files and 200gb monthly bandwith from http downloads of these files.

The blog and review portion of the website should have relatively small bandwidth requirements compared to the mp3 serving.

The comparison page @ http://x10hosting.com/free-hosting-comparison-000webhost seems to suggest that your free hosting could meet my requirements. Will it? I've tried other free hosts and was throttled on the large mp3 file downloads almost immediately

thank you for your time

 

[ellescuba27]

May I recommend using the kiwi6 free hotlinking service?
http://kiwi6.com

 

[essellar]

While podcasts wouldn't be a problem, they would (likely) fall into the general "media collection" category along with photos and videos. At the moment, there's a 1GB cap for media storage in Free Hosting accounts (see the Terms of Service page for details). At about 25MB/hr at a typical podcast encoding rate of 64kb/s, that's only about 40 1-hr episodes (or 80 half-hours, etc.); if you need higher fidelity, the per-'cast storage cost is greater, so you'd be even more restricted. So hosting your actual MP3s on an outboard (dedicated) media hosting service is just about the only way to make Free Hosting work for a podcast.

Keep in mind, too, that the content of your podcasts, even if they are stored elsewhere, need to stay in line with US copyright law. Intro/extro music needs to be something that you have the right to use for the purpose, and you need to be able to prove it. Any music played during the cast needs to be properly licensed or obviously fall under "fair use" (reduced-fidelity clips of limited length used expressly for the purpose of review). That applies no matter where the files are hosted if there's even a hint of a link to them on your site (or its syndication feed).