Interesting New Dreamhost Service
As you may (or may not) know, I use Dreamhost to host my sites.
I've just been reading their newsletter, and noticed a new service they're launching which may benefit those selling digital products.
What is it?
It’s a new service (during the beta only open to DreamHost Customers) that allows you to sell your own digital files, a la iTMS.. but with a few key differences:
- No DRM is allowed.. period!
- Once you upload your file to sell, you pay a tiny one-time storage fee, and we serve it FOREVER at a nice, permanent, URL.
- Anybody who buys a file somebody offers via Files Forever get an online backup of it included.. that is, they may re-download the file as many times as they want, FOREVER!
- Any file you buy from Files Forever you can also “loan” to your friends via the service! They are then allowed to download the file as much as they want until you ask for it “back.” (This is awesome, trust me.)
We handle all the payment processing / shopping cart stuff, and take just 5% + 50c for credit card fees. (We combine purchases to minimize these costs too.)- You can even offer an “affiliate cut” for people who re-sell your files!
The style they write their blog with may not be for everyone (I like it), rest assured they are very professional when dealing with support issues 
To sweeten the deal, it looks like they have a special offer on today, giving you a $99.99 discount.
Link: Dreamhost.com (aff, but I won't get credit if you use the $99.99 discount ;))
Comment by Pidea — October 9, 2006 @ 12:07 pm
I too am a fellow Dreamhost user - can't speak highly enough of their service . . .
But I digress: I too spotted their new service and have already got two digital products that I've been making and shipping by post. I'll be using their new service to sell ISO images instead. I'll post the results on my blog once I've set it all up.