Be Our (Podcast) Host

It’s hard to believe that we’ve already hit our 50th episode, but it’s here and a lot of that is thanks to you, our amazing community who keep listening, subscribing, and intereacting with us across social media, email, and our Discord.

For this milestone episode, we thought you may like a bit of an insight into how each episode of the show reaches you after we record and edit it.

We reached out to Craig Hewitt the founder of Castos, our hosting provider for the podcast, and he kindly agreed to come and chat to us about what podcast hosting is, why good quality hosting is important, as well as looking at some of the challenges of distributing podcasts across so many platforms.

Are you a podcaster yourself, or maybe you’d like to learn more about Castos, or maybe you’ve had some fun stories with podcast hosting over the years. Whatever your experience, we’d love to hear from you, so please send a note over to podcast@crossedwires.net, leave a comment on the post, or join the discussion over on our Discord server

If you liked this episode or any of our content, we’d greatly appreciate any little bit of support you can throw our way over at our Ko-Fi page.

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Episode Links

• Sign up for Castos (Affiliate Link)
• Craig Hewitt on LinkedIn
• RSS (Wikipedia)
• Castos Blog
• Castos Academy
• Castos Pricing
• Audience – Castos Original Podcast
• Dynamo by Castos – Free podcast artwork generator

Chapter Times

1. 00:00:01: Podcast Recommendation: Art Heals All Wounds
2. 00:00:34: Introductions
3. 00:06:28: What Is Podcast Hosting?
4. 00:11:21: Self-Hosted vs Paid Hosting
5. 00:16:51: Seriously Simple Podcasting WordPress Plugin
6. 00:19:51: The Importance of Support
7. 00:22:09: The Unexpected RSS Feed Impact
8. 00:29:45: Analytics
9. 00:37:40: Pricing & What You Get
10. 00:43:57: Automatic Transscription
11. 00:46:08: Democratisation of Podcasts
12. 00:48:43: AFFILIATE PROMO: Backblaze
13. 00:50:46: Importing a Podcast
14. 00:53:25: Free Tools for Podcasters
15. 00:54:58: Private Podcasting
16. 01:01:09: Wrapping Up
17. 01:09:14: PODCAST TRAILER: Art Heals All Wounds

Credits

• Intro and outro theme: Ace of Clubs by RoccoW
• Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):