H.A.M. Radio Podcast
Date
2015 - 2021
Technology
- PHP 7
- Composer
- Bootstrap 4
- Javascript
- jQuery
- C# 6 / .NET 4
- Cloudflare
Description
H.A.M. Radio Podcast was started by the content creator MrMattyPlays and two of his friends. MrMattyPlays had been a founder of SugarBombed.com and I expressed interest in helping him distribute his podcast on iTunes so listeners could subscribe and listen to it on their phones. At the time the podcast was exclusively available on YouTube.
This initially began with a basic C# WPF application that would upload media files and a generated RSS feed to a server for consumption. As its needs grew this was converted instead to a PHP website with a custom CMS. The website was hosted on a LAMP stack and used Cloudflare for DNS and SSL. The website was built using PHP 7, Bootstrap 4, and Javascript and was later converted to Laravel to support the addition of BF-GF-AFK.
The initial launch supported dynamic RSS feed generation for iTunes. MrMattyPlays could add, remove, update, and schedule episodes for launch. Future iterations added support for unique listener tracking and basic episode metrics. Later updates added support for other distribution platforms (Spotify, PocketCasts, etc). The podcast was initially distributed on the same server as SugarBombed.com, but was later moved to a dedicated VPS.