Episode Storage Solution

[tehchives]

Currently we are storing episodes on the backend in Wix as a simple hosting solution. I was speaking with @BibicJr this morning, and he let me know that we are actually about halfway though our memory allotments, and will need to start thinking about alternatives sooner than later.

During the 11-13-24 project meeting I had expressed I thought we were still far under that, in context of discussing alternative hosting solutions such as IPFS. We still have a year ish of storage in this way before we'll need to adjust, but that's only if we aren't also adding other new things to the site (pictures, pages, etc).

[BibicJr]

I'm leaving a little space on the wix storage for future image uploads. Fortunately we don't need much space for the site as web images need to be smallish, and any video hosting we're doing is through Youtube.

But we still need to find another solution. Ideally one with large amounts of gb for storage, can create links to the mp3s of taking stock that work for RSS feeds (Google Drive and Dropbox links do not work for example), and allow files to be larger than 50mb. Preferably a little over 100mb as many taking stock episodes would be closer to that if I didn't have to compress them so hard to fit in the 50mb limit.

[tehchives]

@JFWooten4 did put together a pretty nifty potential solution using IPFS, which may end up being a way for us to host this data on a decentralized basis and allow for interested parties to support the network through nodes, etc.

Here's the link he provided me for the 11-13-24 team meeting, and here's the link to the main directory (which looks like an emulation of the directory within the Taking Stock repo here)

I don't understand how to add files yet, but it's an exciting future option and one I would support a network for if that can be a long term decentralized solution for us and our data.

[JFWooten4]

Discussion continued on Discord so as to get a broader input on which domain we ought use going forward.

See also documentation of current process here from Bibic and isolated past contemplations.