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[bubosquared]

Every now and then, I ponder how cool it would be do do my own podcast. Then I realise I've neither the webspace nor bandwidth for it. Plus, you know, no content.

This just in: Elijah Wood: Hot. fucking shaved head, man, gets me every time.

[ETA] Dude. [/ETA]

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[wibbble]

Both webspace and bandwidth can be had fairly cheaply these days.

And, not to be too much of a whore, we are setting up a hosting company. Talk to E tonight about it, if you like. :o)

Beyond that, it is possible to find free space for these things, using a combination of a free blogging service (to provide the RSS feed) and somewhere like archive.org.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Well, if it comes to it, I could host it on my own webspace until it becomes too much (and therefore I can justify paying for it) :) There's still the issue of content, though.

[wibbble]

Well, the obvious thing is fandom stuff. As well as your own chattering, you could do Skype/Gadget Project-powered interviews, or consider photo/video casting too.

You also wouldn't update it that frequently - once a week at most, say - so it's easier to come up with interesting content than if you were trying to make the equivalent written blog.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

... Oooooh, that sounds like a good idea. And I could see if I can rope some other people into it, so if there's four of us, for example, we can rotate and only have one each to do per month. Um. Hm. So tempting.

[wibbble]

Talk to E about it tonight. We might even be able to swing free hosting for something like that (like we're going to do with Least Expected) as a 'fan service'.

I've looked into the code/back-end requirements for this stuff as well (and I've talked about it with mortaine, who just finished writing 'Video Blogging for Dummies'), so if you need any help with that side of things, just let me know.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that'd be cool, yes. Bandwidth is my main concern, really--after LE caused the Great Bandwidth Spike Of 2001, I've beomce a bit paranoid about it. ;D

[wibbble]

Meh. Bandwidth is cheap.

I don't want to go into details on a public post, but I was just talking about this with our upstream provider, and it's really a non-issue. Our set-up is scalable and pretty cheap.

What was the peak usage on your bandwidth spike?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

From what I can find in my old entries, the biggest peak was probably around early 2002:

December 2001: 1.5 GB
January 2002: 7+ GB
February 2002: 8+ GB

Which isn't much, I know, but our limit was 6 GB at the time, and I had to pay $7/GB/month for overages, so. (Which is about as much as I pay for the hosting in toto, now. Did prices go down since then, or did I just become a smarter shopper?)

These days, we rarely get more than a Gig a month anymore, which is one of the reasons I'm not sure it was entirely LE's fault we got hammered like that. (It was pretty much pure text, after all, andno matter how popular the fandom suddenly became, 6-7 GB in one month sounds ... off. Ah well, mysteries of the ages. :D)

[wibbble]

Bandwidth prices have dropped a lot, and keep dropping. 8 GB isn't something to worry about these days, though - but it is a lot for a pure-text site. There's things you can do to limit text bandwidth usage - it compresses down really nicely, and most browsers these days support transparent compression. (This creates a heavier CPU load on the server, though. It's all swings and roundabouts.)

A podcast would use more bandwidth than text, but even that's going to be well within any reasonable limits. Unless you get slashdotted. ;o)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I don'tthink we're in danger of being slashdotted, thank god. :D Though we did get featured on SA--twice. Oy.

[wibbble]

And actually, even with high-impact usage, there's still ways around it - like using the Coral CDN: http://www.coralcdn.org/

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

i have webspace and bandwidth for ya, if you provide the content. :)

(*I* am interested in a podcast of yourS!)

ELIJAH IS HOT YES.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, because I'm so interesting. :P

ELIJAH NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HOT!

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

ELIJAH WAS ALWAYS HOT YOU'RE SIMPLY A HEATHEN (BELGIAN HEATHEN, OMG!)

my DH plan has 115 *GIGS* of bandwidth a month, and 20 Gigs of space. when i say i can help, i do mean it! I never, ever use up the bandwidth. *g*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Heee! Well, my plan has ... *checks* ... 125GB? Whoa. Of which I use, um, a gig. So yeah. I'll probably be able to host it myself, actually.

[sivan.livejournal.com]

WHAT. Don't get me wrong, I really like Elijah, but I have rarely, if ever, thought of him as hot. And then he goes and shaves his hair and that does it? Hah. (Or maybe it's the sunglasses.)

(The tattoo's painted on for the movie though, right? It's very pretty.)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Fandom seems to lean towards it being painted on for the movie, yeah. And yes, the hair is ... gah? He's totally pulling a Justin Timberlake on me, DAMMIT!

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Werd, yo. At least he doesn't have the silly little punk do anymore. That just made him look like a Sum 41 reject.