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#12439 – Distributing RSS Feeds for 4Podcast

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Thursday, 06 August 2026 00:55 UTC

[email protected]

Hi Yannick,

I currently host my Tall And True Short Reads podcast (100+ episodes) on Acast. My annual subscription renewal is due on 11 September, and I'm considering moving from Acast (I'm not getting any marketing support for my US$178).

You may recall I have a Joomla-based podcast website (https://www.tallandtrueshortreads.com/), and I wonder whether I could host my podcast on the site using 4Podcast.

I've watched your Getting Started video, and I think I could install and set up 4Podcast without too much difficulty:

https://weeblr.com/joomla-seo/4podcast

My question is about the last step: distributing the RSS Feed. When I publish an episode on Acast, they handle the distribution to Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and the other major podcasting platforms, although I manually set the initial podcast feed on some of these platforms.

Will I have to distribute the RSS Feed for every episode with 4Podcast?

Regards, Robert

Thursday, 06 August 2026 07:40 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi,

and I wonder whether I could host my podcast on the site using 4Podcast.

That's what 4Podcast is for.

Will I have to distribute the RSS Feed for every episode with 4Podcast?

No. That's what a RSS feed does: it tells others when there are new things.

What you do is you go to your Apple, Spotify, ... accounts and you tell them: here is the URL of my podcast feed. That's all. That's what a feed is for. Once every few hours Apple and others read the feed and see if there's any new episode. Nothing to do with using Acast, another podcast host or 4Podcast on your own server.

When I publish an episode on Acast, they handle the distribution to Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and the other major podcasting platforms,

Acast does not do anything.

They just store you mp3 files on their server and update the RSS feed when you add a new episode. That's all. They don't contact Apple or Spotify or anything.

Best regards,
Yannick Gaultier
https://weeblr.com | @weeblr

Thursday, 06 August 2026 23:35 UTC

[email protected]

Thanks Yannick,

Re-reading your response this morning, I've realised my shared website hosting service could be a problem:

[Acast] just store your mp3 files on their server and update the RSS feed when you add a new episode.

The disk space shouldn't be an issue with my "Short Reads" podcast episodes, but I guess a large part of my annual subscription cost with Acast is for the bandwidth of their servers!

Regards, Robert

Friday, 07 August 2026 07:59 UTC

wb_weeblr

The disk space shouldn't be an issue with my "Short Reads" podcast episodes, but I guess a large part of my annual subscription cost with Acast is for the bandwidth of their servers!

You should not host the files on your own hosting. Instead, you can easily host that for free, with unlimited bandwith. I have used Cloudflare R2 for storing podcast files (I think Backblaze B2 can also be used but Cloudflare is just perfect for that use case).

The free tier allows for storing 10GB, so as long as your total episodes volume is less than 10GB, it's going to be free. that should be 1 to 2,000 episodes. After that, they charge $0.015 / GB-month, so each time you add a GB of mp3 file (100 to 200 episodes), they charge you $.015 each month. [edit] Bandwidth is always free.

You upload the files to Cloudflare through their control panel (you can create folders and subfolders as you see fit. You make that file public and you have a URL. You paste that URL in 4Podcast when you create the episode.

The thing you won't have with 4Podcast compared to Acast is ads and monetization. But I don't think you're after that.

Best regards,
Yannick Gaultier
https://weeblr.com | @weeblr

Friday, 07 August 2026 11:38 UTC

[email protected]

Thanks, Yannick, this sounds perfect.

I'll research Cloudflare R2 as you suggest and hope to migrate from Acast to 4Podcast with my audio files on Cloudflare in the next fortnight.

And yes, I'm more concerned with cost saving for my podcast than monetisation.

Regards, Robert

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