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Commencepayments.com, costs me $40 a month to run (though if I wasn't lazy I could drop it significantly - $20 for heroku + ssl and $20 for cloudflare) launched
by matthewarkin 11y ago
Commencepayments.com, costs me $40 a month to run (though if I wasn't lazy I could drop it significantly - $20 for heroku + ssl and $20 for cloudflare) launched last February and just hit the $1000 mark!
- znpy 11y agoWhat Heroku services are you using ?
- matthewarkin 11y agoTheir SSL endpoint, I plan on just moving to an ec2 instance
- rowofpixels 11y agoI'm pretty sure you can use cloudflare's free ssl with heroku at this point.
- matthewarkin 11y agoyeah, but I wanted SSL for the complete trip, free SSL would terminate at Cloudflare leaving the connection from Cloudflare to Heroku not-protected (which would be questionable from a PCI perspective). And then for some reason, I couldn't get the connection from Cloudflare to Heroku to work under the *.herokuapp.com ssl cert.
- kirankn 11y ago@matthewarkin You may want to use letsencrypt.org for SSL and save further on costs
- matthewarkin 11y agothe ssl itself was only $10/year, the $20/month heroku charges you to use a custom ssl cert.
- nambante 11y agoand why wouldn't I use Stripe directly?
- matthewarkin 11y agoYou can, just not everyone has access or the ability to write server-side code. For instance if you used Wix, Squarespace, some generic website builder you often have no access to the underlying server-side code.
- tixocloud 11y agoVery nice. Very cool! How did you start getting customers in the first place?
- matthewarkin 11y agoa lot of time spent in Stripe's IRC chat room, recommendations from Stripe support to users