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GitHub for podcast hosting?

by Kasey Baughan

What are the major downsides to hosting your podcast on a public GitHub repo?

I know there's the 100MB file limit. I'm assuming analytics will be limited/non-existent. Anything else?

Example of what I plan on doing: https://github.com/kaseyb002/law-school-ta/blob/master/feed.rss

Kasey Baughan's avatarKasey Baughan
on June 26, 2020
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    • Page can't be larger than 1 GB so you'll eventually run out of space.
    • Soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month

    If you want a free host I suggest using anchor.fm

    jjung's avatar jjung
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    6 years ago
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      Thanks. I did end up moving to anchor.

      Kasey Baughan's avatar Kasey Baughan
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      6 years ago
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    Technically you can do that. You can also host on Archive.org for free, or even use Dropbox, AWS and other storage option.

    There are several downsides, though. First, as you noted, analytics and filesize could be limited.

    More importantly, if you have a significant number of listeners, you may encounter bandwidth issues - dedicated podcast hosts are usually using dedicated storage and CDN, to ensure your audio files can be accessed even if the traffic spikes.

    Satch's avatar Satch
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    6 years ago
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      appreciate the reply

      Kasey Baughan's avatar Kasey Baughan
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      6 years ago
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    thanks

    chloe908's avatar chloe908
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    3 years ago
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