What is a backend?
The word “backend” in the technology field usually refers to a management/administrative section to a web site that is hidden from the every day user. Web masters are usually the only individuals that are able to get into this normally password protected area. The backend allows you to manipulate the front end in terms of colors, text, layout, or whatever you choose to set up.
A backend refers to the final hosting place for your media. Meedu is the front end to the service, where you or your podcasting appliance pushes files. Meedu provides the easy management facilities. The backend is where your files finally reside, and where your listeners receive the files. Having this level of separation and indirection means that Meedu can scale to many more backends as storage needs grow. As Meedu grows, we anticipate other bandwidth-ready universities to offer service for this growing educational podcast repository. And, multiple front ends can be added to the variety of backends.
