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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Castopod, the open source podcast hosting and publishing platform with ActivityPub Fediverse support, preinstalled with nginx, PHP 8.3 and MariaDB. Per-instance administrator and database credentials are generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
Overview
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Castopod admin sign-in
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Admin dashboard
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Podcast dashboard
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Episode view
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.
Overview Castopod is the free open source platform for hosting and publishing podcasts. It serves standards-compliant RSS feeds with Podcasting 2.0 tags (chapters, transcripts, funding, location), hosts multiple podcasts on one instance, and has ActivityPub built in, so every podcast is its own Fediverse account that listeners on Mastodon and other platforms can follow, comment on and share. Privacy-friendly analytics report episode downloads by country and player with no third party trackers, and embeddable players let episodes be placed on any website. This image delivers Castopod fully installed and configured, so a complete podcast platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is Castopod 1.15.
Application Stack Castopod is a CodeIgniter 4 application running on PHP 8.3 with OPcache, served by nginx with php-fpm. MariaDB provides the database. The install wizard is already completed, so customers land directly on the admin sign-in page. Castopod's scheduled background tasks (Fediverse broadcasting, WebSub, RSS imports) run every minute via a systemd timer.
Secure By Default On the first boot of your instance a one-shot service creates a fresh database schema, a fresh MariaDB password, a fresh analytics salt and a fresh administrator password, all unique to that instance, and writes the administrator email and password to a root only file. The instance's own address is set as the application base URL automatically. No shared or default credentials and no content ship in the image.
Ready To Use The Castopod code tree, web server and database are all configured, with application files and uploaded media on one dedicated, independently resizable storage volume and the database on another. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, and create your first podcast.
cloudimg Support 24/7 technical support by email and chat. Help with Castopod deployment, upgrades, HTTPS and domain configuration, email and S3 media storage setup, Fediverse federation, RSS migration from other hosts, performance tuning and database administration.
Use Cases Independent podcasters and podcast networks self-hosting their shows, broadcasters and publishers keeping full ownership of feeds and audience data, organisations distributing internal audio content, and anyone leaving hosted podcast platforms while keeping their RSS subscribers via feed redirects.
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Highlights
- Castopod, the open source podcast hosting and publishing platform, preinstalled with nginx, PHP 8.3 and MariaDB, install wizard already completed, with RSS Podcasting 2.0 feeds, ActivityPub Fediverse federation and privacy-friendly analytics
- Secure by default: a fresh database schema, MariaDB password, analytics salt and administrator password are generated for every instance on first boot and stored in a root only file - no shared credentials or content ship in the image
- 24/7 technical support from cloudimg for deployment, upgrades, HTTPS and domain setup, email and S3 storage, Fediverse federation, RSS migration and database administration
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Dimension | Description | Cost/hour |
|---|---|---|
m5.large Recommended | m5.large | $0.08 |
t2.micro | t2.micro instance type | $0.04 |
t3.micro | t3.micro instance type | $0.04 |
r8id.4xlarge | r8id.4xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m8i-flex.12xlarge | m8i-flex.12xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
dl1.24xlarge | dl1.24xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
u-3tb1.56xlarge | u-3tb1.56xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
m8id.32xlarge | m8id.32xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
c8a.16xlarge | c8a.16xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
r8i-flex.2xlarge | r8i-flex.2xlarge instance type | $0.24 |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Version release notes
Initial release of Castopod 1.15 podcast hosting and publishing platform.
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Usage instructions
Connect via SSH on port 22 as the default login user for your operating system variant (the user guide lists it per variant; on Ubuntu it is 'ubuntu'). Castopod is served on port 80. Retrieve the generated administrator email and password with: sudo cat /root/castopod-credentials.txt. Browse to http://<instance-public-ip>/cp-admin and sign in with that email and password (the instance's address is set as the base URL on first boot). Services are managed with systemctl (nginx, php8.3-fpm, mariadb, castopod-tasks.timer); admin CLI tasks use 'sudo -u www-data php /var/www/castopod/spark ...'. To enable HTTPS and a custom domain, follow the user guide.
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cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this product by email and live chat. Our engineers help with deployment, configuration, updates, performance tuning and troubleshooting; critical issues receive a one hour average response. Contact support@cloudimg.co.uk .
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