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I also found that to be really bizarre and there’s threads of users requesting usage info going back to over a year ago.

Could you please expand on how you host a podcast and what software you use (or point to resources that can help)? I’m assuming you mean hosting the podcast audio files, not just RSS feeds to the episode files stored elsewhere. Thank you.

If you're just doing simple stuff where bandwidth matters I'd look into OVH/kimsufi, it's cheap unmetered dedicated servers.