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How To Make A Podcast

A podcast is an easy way of distributing media filesover the internet, and this article will tell how to make apodcast. The first thing necessary is a domain, and ahost on which to store the media files for the podcast.Getting a domain is simple and easy, there are manydomain registrars that can register a domain forsomeone for a small fee. Some of these domainregistrars are GoDaddy.com, Dotster, or NetworkSolutions are some that provide domains. The domainregistrar will, for a small fee, enter the chosen domain,provided it is not being used, into the computers thatform the backbone of the internet. These computers willbe told where the domain is located on the internet;what host it is that holds the domain's information. Inorder to give them that information, the name serversthat are held by the host need to be associated with thedomain. Once the domain is in place, a good hostshould be found. The host that is chosen should offer alarge amount of both disk space and a much largeramount bandwidth. Disk space is neccessary becausethe site which holds the podcast will be storing largemedia files; audio or video files that take up a lot ofspace and are difficult to compress. The largebandwidth is necessary because transferring these largefiles many times to many different people will use upthe quota quickly. A good amount of diskspace wouldbe several GigaBytes, bandwidth should be in the tensor hundreds of Gigabytes. Once the host is set up, itshould offer you a couple of addresses callednameservers. Inputting these server addresses into thesite where the domain was registered will complete thedomain setup and allow the site to be found on theinternet.

The next step for people who want to know how tomake a podcast is installing the software necessary tomaintain the podcast. A small piece of coding calleddircaster.php can be used to set up a basic level ofpodcast. Dircaster.php can be found easily by searchingfor it in any search engine. Once it is located, it shouldbe edited to reflect the particulars of the domain anduploaded to the site. Dircaster.php will generate an RSSfile, or feed, that tells the subscriber about the new filesavailable for downloading. To begin podcasting, createthe audio files that should be podcast, fill in theinformation about the file such as date, author, etc, andupload them to the same directory that containsdircaster.php. You now have a podcast, and all that isneeded is to publicise the address of the filedircaster.php. To update the podcast with newinformation, just upload the new files. Other things tomake the podcast better might be a site that containsinformation about the podcast, but it isn't necessary.

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