Housing files on a hosted service

Fee based services:

Liberated Syndication, aka Libsyn – Five to thirty dollars, U.S. per month, depending on how much storage you want. No charge for bandwidth. You have to use their blog software, but you should be able to take insert you Libsyn enclosures into your feed of choice. I understand that your Libsyn blog would have advertising.

Audioblog – Five dollars U.S. a month. Upload your own MP3s, record using their web-based recorder or phone in your podcasts. Limit on each file’s size but not on storage or bandwidth.

MyPodcasts.net – 500 megabytes audio/video storage and unlimited transfer for ten dollars a month. Two gigabytes of audio/video storage and unlimited transfer for twenty dollars a month.

Free services:

Ourmedia - Run by the Internet Archive. You upload your file and apply a creative commons license to it. Ourmedia provides you a link to the file, an enclosure. There is software available to facilitate the uploading and applying of a license: http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/publisher/

Odeo - Provides a web-based recorder that is very simple to use but which provides no editing options at all. Free storage and bandwidth, though. Requires a free account. Odeo is more than just a hosting service, though. I encourage you to take a look at it.

PodOmatic – A poor cousin to Odeo. Five hundred megabytes of storage allowed but, more importantly, only seven point five gigabyes of bandwidth per month. Ten dollars buys you fifty gigabytes of bandwidth which is still too little. Fun to play around with, though and you can download your recordings and post them where you have better bandwidth. This is an unusual option you do not have with Odeo.

Click Caster - Very basic service is free. The more you pay, the better your storage, bandwidth and service plan.