Podcast Hosting
Podcast Hosting is a app in the osFoundry community catalog. Self-hosted podcast publishing platform — RSS feeds, episode publishing, podcast websites with themes, analytics, monetisation (premium episodes, donations), Podcasting 2.0 features (transcripts, chapters, persons, value-for-value). Powered by Castopod. Ships as a self-contained all-in-one image bundling Castopod (PHP/CodeIgniter) and MariaDB.
Details
- Workspace: osfoundry
- Category: COMMUNICATION
- Pricing: Free
- Access: Community
Features
- Self-hosted podcast publishing platform — RSS feeds
- Episode publishing
- Podcast websites with themes
- Analytics
- Monetisation (premium episodes
- Donations)
Documentation
# Podcast Hosting
Self-hosted podcast publishing, powered by Castopod.
## Features
- Podcast websites with themes
- RSS feeds with Podcasting 2.0 tags (transcripts, chapters, persons, location, value)
- Episode publishing with audio + show notes
- Analytics (downloads by app, region, episode)
- Monetisation: premium tiers, donations, value-for-value (Bitcoin Lightning)
- ActivityPub federation (followers on Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc.)
- Multi-podcast, multi-user, role-based
## Packaging
All-in-one build: Castopod (CodeIgniter, FrankenPHP) + bundled MariaDB under one supervisor on a persistent volume. Per-minute task runner declared as platform cron. `CP_BASEURL` must equal the proxied origin — Castopod bakes it into RSS feeds. Admin login + DB password are generated on first boot via the in-app installer at `/cp-install`.
How to use Podcast Hosting in osFoundry
Install Podcast Hosting into your workspace in one click, then fork it in osStudio to customise the prompts, tools, or configuration for your stack. Anyone in your workspace can pick up where you left off.
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