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We're using S3 which is around 9 cents per gigabyte downloaded plus 3 cents per month per gigagbyte for storage. This is a pretty standard approach for reliably hosting files.

Using a server on digital ocean to store files would be bad practice in lots of ways.

We're more focused on website creation as opposed to being a payments company. The fee will be dropped to 5% as soon as we make sure we won't lose money on hosting fees.

Soon we'll have more squarespace-like features on the website creation side of things and will likely charge for features along those lines ( monthly hosting plans ), while dropping our fees per sales to equal cost ( as suggested by another user in this thread ).

I think you're probably right. Going to do some thinking on better approaches to this. Thanks

Just worried about legal implications of hosting pornographic content. We may allow this in the future but don't want to do so without making sure everything is in the clear.

Hosting is not cheap and we don't have a ton of money right now to host stuff at a loss. We plan to drop this to 5% in the near future if we won't lose money by doing so.

To purchase or to sign up?

Emails are required to purchase as download links are sent to users upon purchasing ( in addition to being redirected to the download page ).

You're right. This is one of the top priorities of ours to update.

OneButton is a website generator, not just a product page. Users can add their own domain name, etc. We're like Squarespace meets Gumroad (and will soon have more features on the 'squarespace' side of things).

We plan on dropping the fee to around 5% soon, but we want to make sure that we won't lose money doing that. We decided to launch with a 10% fee to make sure we don't lose a bunch of money on hosting fees.

Our first target for marketing will be musicians as an alternative to Bandcamp (which charges a 15% fee + paypal fees).

Regarding pirated material, we'll remove anything we find that falls into that category. We'll soon have a reporting feature, etc.

That said, in order to sell users have to verify their identity with Stripe, so we don't expect to have a ton of illegal stuff going on.