Should I Use My Own Website for Podcast Hosting?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Chris, who has a question about hosting his podcast on his website. Should he host his podcast on his website? What are the pros and cons of using his website for podcast hosting? In this episode I mention Libsyn (use the code “Pat” to get your first month free) and Buzzsprout, podcast hosting providers you can start with. Learn more at Libsyn.com or Buzzsprout.com. Do you have a question about podcast hosting? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. The sponsor for this episode is Vistaprint, an excellent resource for your business marketing needs. As a special to AskPat listeners, get 500 custom business cards for just $9.99 (50 percent savings!). Be sure to enter "Pat" at checkout. Learn more at http://www.vistaprint.com/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com.com.
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:09.0	AskPaths.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pafflin here and welcome to episode 841 of AskPath.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.0	We have an awesome question today from Chris, but before we get to that, I want to let you know about today's sponsor, which is Vista Print.
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1:03.1	P-T at checkout to get 500 cards for only $999. Go there, Vistoprint.com, Pat. All right. Now, here's today's question from Chris.
1:13.3	Hi, Pat.
1:14.4	My question is, should I look at hosting my podcast on my own website?
1:22.1	I have a virtual dedicated server, and I have unlimited data transfer bandwidth.
1:32.3	So it's not an issue of not being able to transfer the data that it would increase my hosting costs.
1:40.1	And I also have lots of space to be able to store many, many episodes before I'll get anywhere close to hitting my space capacity on the server.
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