Free Podcasting Hosts?

TheZorch asks: "I'm looking for a free online Podcast hosting site which offers RSS feeds. The feeds are important for submitting to iTunes. I've found Odeo, however uploading to the site is difficult and hangs about half-way through, most of the time. Currently, my Podcasts are being stored at Archive.org, the Creative Commons Internet Archive, but the site doesn't generate RSS feeds which allow you to post your podcasts on iTunes. Uploading large files via HTTP is a pain even on a cable modem. I'd prefer to be able to do it via FTP. Does anyone know of a good free Podcasting host with RSS feeds and reliable uploads for large files?"

Comments

Pay, and build your own?

[Ford Prefect]

Web hosting's pretty cheap these days - for instance, I get loads of disk space and about a terabyte of monthly bandwidth on the vaguely-reliable, cheap-and-cheerful Dreamhost. [NOTE COMPLETE ABSENCE OF AFFILIATE LINK!]

I've no idea if there are any off-the-shelf, open source 'podcasting' packages available (any suggestions, anyone?), but RSS is very simple and it could be worth learning just enough PHP to write your own, incredibly basic system for generating it yourself.

But wait, this is the difficult solution, isn't it?

You poor soul

[wondafucka]

I was expecting comments like this, the minute that I saw the article.

While I am extremely impressed by your ability to set up a home server, I think the category of nerd (not used in the derogatory fashion) that you are and the category of nerd of the question asker, are completely different.

Yes, taking a spare computer and setting up host is leet. It's pretty badass. But it's pretty obvious by the question itself that the poster is not capable of doing that. They have probably never compiled a line of code in their life, much less written a little routine to spit out an rss feed.

They may be inexperienced in that route, but the poster is smart enough to know that someone else has probably already created a simple solution to their problem and probably has a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" web solution. I almost think that's even more elite. The poster gets what they want without writing a single line of code. How's that for a programming language.

I think that there should be room in slashdot for people who like and use technology without going under the hood too deeply, as well as the normal slashdot crowd of programmers, IT people, EEs, and pr0n hounds. I guess that's asking a little too much though.