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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 [email protected], 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. Affiliate Promotion As you’ll hear in the episode, we’ve had our own data loss incident here at Crossed Wires and if we didn’t have Backblaze powering our backups we’d have had to spend hours re-exporting every MP3 we’d ever created for the podcast. They provide simple and elegant backups for just $7 a month, and because it’s running in the background, you never have to worry about if your files are being safely backed up to the cloud. Sign up for your 15-day free trial here and make sure you never lose those important files again. 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 00:00:01: Podcast Recommendation: Art Heals All Wounds 00:00:34: Introductions 00:06:28: What Is Podcast Hosting? 00:11:21: Self-Hosted vs Paid Hosting 00:16:51: Seriously Simple Podcasting WordPress Plugin 00:19:51: The Importance of Support 00:22:09: The Unexpected RSS Feed Impact 00:29:45: Analytics 00:37:40: Pricing & What You Get 00:43:57: Automatic Transscription 00:46:08: Democratisation of Podcasts 00:48:43: AFFILIATE PROMO: Backblaze 00:50:46: Importing a Podcast 00:53:25: Free Tools for Podcasters 00:54:58: Private Podcasting 01:01:09: Wrapping Up 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!):

Crossed Wires · James Bilsbrough & Jae Bloom

March 20, 20231h 10m

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Show Notes

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 [email protected], 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.

Affiliate Promotion

As you’ll hear in the episode, we’ve had our own data loss incident here at Crossed Wires and if we didn’t have Backblaze powering our backups we’d have had to spend hours re-exporting every MP3 we’d ever created for the podcast. They provide simple and elegant backups for just $7 a month, and because it’s running in the background, you never have to worry about if your files are being safely backed up to the cloud. Sign up for your 15-day free trial here and make sure you never lose those important files again.

Episode Links

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

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