Compare hosts by the responsibilities they take on.

Bring a representative catalog

List your release frequency, file types, existing feed address, and required supporting assets. Include transcripts and artwork in the evaluation rather than treating them as optional extras. Use one difficult episode to test changes, export, and public retrieval. Record unanswered questions as unknowns, not assumed capabilities.

Ask about ownership and leaving

Find out who controls the feed address and how a move is handled. Ask for a concrete export and inspect whether it preserves identifiers and relationships as well as titles. A host storing your public delivery files is not automatically your complete archive. Decide which preserved copies remain under your control.

Evaluate delivery and operations

Use official destination requirements to ask precise technical questions. Also compare support ownership, incident communication, backup responsibilities, and billing assumptions. Avoid permanent claims about the cheapest or fastest provider without current evidence. The accompanying migration guide helps turn a host comparison into a reversible operational decision.