Question about hosting Digital Products

Discussion in 'General Business' started by likinisolutions, Mar 15, 2008.

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  1. #1
    Aloha

    I hope this will be considered a Business question and not Payment Processing, if I'm wrong I apologize.

    When are selling your own digital product that is delivered in the form of a ZIP file where is the best place to host the file itself? Do you just put it in some obscure subdirectory on your site and hope that no one finds it and downloads it without paying? Would you host your files on a independent account on another host that you buy space on just for that purpose? Or is there a service (free or otherwise) that can take care of this for you? What do other members do?

    I will be using PayPal to do the transaction processing if that makes any difference. The ZIP file might be as large as 10 MB if that factors into calculating bandwidth or anything.

    Thanks

    Bill
     
    likinisolutions, Mar 15, 2008 IP
  2. dynashox

    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    You can use two method here:

    1. Upload the products to your own hosting. Make sure you created the donwload link URL which is hard to guest. For example : http://www.mydomain123456.com/digital-123x-products-tq.html. But make sure you set it to No-Index in the html files. If not, Googlebot will crawl your download page which I'm sure you don't want it to happen.

    2. Another one is use a service like e-junkie. You upload the files to their hosting. The good part of using e-junkie is that you can limit how many downloads or download durations for each user. e-junkie have a 7 day free trials, but if you're using the promo code, you can have up to 104 days of free trial.

    Hope that helps you. :)
     
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    slaydragon Banned

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    it wll be far better to use the latter solution.
     
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    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    Yeah... if you want the download page to be more secure, just go for the 2nd option. :)
     
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    I store mine in a a directory in the root (above html pages) and use a script to send an expiring link to the file when it is purchased. There is no way a browser can reach my files without the link.
     
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    likinisolutions Guest

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    Thank you all for you responses and for the heads-up on e-junkie, I'm looking into that right now.

    Slaydragon, you mentioned extending the coupon to 104 days, how is that done? I've seen someone listing a 144-days free e-junkie coupon on eBay, is this the same thing?

    Thanks again

    Bill
     
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    Just as soon as I posted this I found it - If anyone else needs it the promo code is "CRAFTBOOM".

    Thanks again!
     
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