Doubtless you’ve heard of podcasting and streaming video if you are reading this blog. Since the field exploded a few years ago dozens of commercial hosting providers have arisen, each offering a different flavor of the same basic service. The Freemium model is prevalent. The free packages limit your disk space and bandwidth as a way of enticing you to pay for a premium account.
Typically you get 100-500mb of server space and 1-5gb of bandwidth, although a few offer unlimited bandwidth for free.
- Podomatic (500mb space / 2gb bandwidth)
- SwitchPod (450mb space / unlimited bandwidth)
- Pod-Serve (no longer offering free accounts)
- PodBean (100mb space / 5gb bandwidth)
- Technochild (50mb per file but more if you ask nicely / unlimited bandwidth)
However all of these commercial offerings do not compare with what you get from the Internet Archive. It’s only for Creative Commons licensed media, though, so if you have dreams of becoming a…
