Am pretty sure there’s quite a few of them out there – most decent hosting companies let you and I suspect in most cases the box admin is your mirror admin anyway.

That way, if a mirror goes away you just point podcasts.lugradio.org to someone else. And it’s not like that particular mirror will get overhammered, ‘cos coral takes the strain.

The “crux” here is the ability to create a URL that will never change – and a cname, while not perfect, will give you a pretty good chance.

-ttfn, Xalior

(a) As per Wrong Suggestion #4, I am under the impression that one can use ourmedia.org to submit content to archive.org in a way that bypasses the review process and waiting limit. It might be worth investigating.

(b) Rely on coral and perhaps some provider like libsyn.com for the initial burst of downloads for the first two or four weeks of the episode’s life. Rely on archive.org for archives of old shows. (The RSS feeds should only really contain one or two shows to protect against people accidentally downloading your whole catalogue when they first subscribe.)

(c) Follow Dave Slusher’s example (evilgeniuschronicles.org) and have your default RSS feed serve only the torrent files. He puts a plain mp3 file in the feed that will only show up if a person’s podcatcher doesn’t do BitTorrent. The mp3 file explains that BitTorrent didn’t work for them and they need to subscribe to the alternative mp3 feed. It’s a compromise solution that encourages tech-savy people to use his BitTorrent feed, but holds the hands of non geeks.

Jon.