New Media Guides

* storage space for your audio files

* a place to host your site (the 'interface' that visitors will see)

* many hosting solutions will provide both of these

Hosting

Overview (Interface, Hosting space, & Bandwidth)

You will need to have a webpage somewhere on the internet through you can present links to your audio files, updates related to your podcast project, and any other information you'd like to share with visitors. You can create html files yourself or use some kind of blogging style program to partially automate the page creation process. The format and style of your webpage can be referred to as the site interface. You will also need online storage space for the audio files you have created. The recorded audio files will be between 10~40MB/hour of audio, depending on how they are recorded. The amount of space provided is referred to as 'hosting space'. Finally, you will need to make sure that your hosting solution includes enough bandwidth for people to access your site and audio files. Bandwidth is the total amount of data that flows from your site. For example, if 50 people access a 20MB file that would result in 1000MB or 1GB of data transfer or bandwidth usage.