Hey Everyone,
As you all know, the website is down, including the podcasts, I have gotten allot of complaints about how big and how long it takes to download a episode.
Let me explain what’s going on, right now I’m using a high-end Mac Mini as the server; yes, you can make a Mac Mini a web-server, hell, you can make ANY Mac with OSX with just one click. So, I’m using Time Warner Cable’s (TWC) road runner internet service, and even with there “Turbo” package, the side moves quite slow. About 2 months ago I signed up with Mobile Me when it debut, ever since then I’ve been playing around with it, and its pretty neat. One of the best things is it gives you space for your own website 20GB of HD space, and 200GB of bandwidth a month.
This is neat, I can keep things clean and simple, and also I can finally use iWeb, a great app which all this you see is neatly created for you. I love it, one nice thing too its only $100 a year instead of paying an extra $50 a month for TWC. Currently my bill from TWC is over $200 so I could defiantly use the break.
One big problem though, the podcasts. Yes I know the podcasts are big in file size, there size is about 350MB, which is big for a 30 minute video, what I’m looking to do is compress the video again I would LOVE to get it to down to 30MB for a fast and easy download of the podcast AND it wont eat much of the bandwidth. So stay tuned everyone, and just so you know, the website will be up sooner than the podcasts, so don’t expect the podcasts to be up anytime soon
-Ernest
