A subsequent conversation with one of the sales guys there confirmed their process issue with PayPal. You will receive the URL from them via e-mail, along with a username and password, to complete the download. Next week, PayPal is supposed to be integrated into the purchase/download process the same way Visa/Mastercard purchases work now.
Yah, I'm the "sales guy" (actually, the only guy at Magnatune) -- I don't (yet) have paypal integrated into my shopping system.
My credit card vendor gives me an API I can call to run a charge, but Paypal makes me send users off to the paypal shopping basket, and I therefore can't easily validate that you paid.
So... that's the long story why, if you pay for something on Magnatune with paypal, I get the email confirming payment, and then (manually) send you the download info.
I've got a piece of software called "DLMan" which I need to install (later this week) which does the fancier paypal authorization dance, and when that's done Paypal users will get the download URL immediately, like visa/mcard folks do.
Ok, web site speed at Magnatune seems back to normal - nice & zippy!
I'm now running a copy of the poorly-named but
amazingly fast open-source "AOLserver" http://www.aolserver.com/ on port 81, feeding all graphics requests through it rather than through Apache. That seems to have
alleviated all the (current) speed problems.
Now, of course, that'll just encourage more people to visit, and I'll have new speed problems in a few hours (grin).
Ok, so I discovered that I was slashdotted about
an hour ago when Apache slowed to a crawl.
Things look better now, but still sluggish.
(at least it's still working).
I've moved all graphics to my
secondary server, running Squid. That helped
Apache, but graphics are taking some time to
come up. I'm bringing up another squid server
now.
Audio streaming seems to be working ok (at
least for me)
And THANKS for all the kind words on this thread
(I'll respond to them once I get the servers
running fast)
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Yah, I'm the "sales guy" (actually, the only guy at Magnatune) -- I don't (yet) have paypal integrated into my shopping system.
My credit card vendor gives me an API I can call to run a charge, but Paypal makes me send users off to the paypal shopping basket, and I therefore can't easily validate that you paid.
So... that's the long story why, if you pay for something on Magnatune with paypal, I get the email confirming payment, and then (manually) send you the download info.
I've got a piece of software called "DLMan" which I need to install (later this week) which does the fancier paypal authorization dance, and when that's done Paypal users will get the download URL immediately, like visa/mcard folks do.
-john (the Magnatune guy)
I'm now running a copy of the poorly-named but amazingly fast open-source "AOLserver" http://www.aolserver.com/ on port 81, feeding all graphics requests through it rather than through Apache. That seems to have alleviated all the (current) speed problems.
Now, of course, that'll just encourage more people to visit, and I'll have new speed problems in a few hours (grin).
-john
Things look better now, but still sluggish. (at least it's still working).
I've moved all graphics to my secondary server, running Squid. That helped Apache, but graphics are taking some time to come up. I'm bringing up another squid server now.
Audio streaming seems to be working ok (at least for me)
And THANKS for all the kind words on this thread (I'll respond to them once I get the servers running fast)
- John (the Magnatune guy)