Hey Chris, thank you! So by this I found https://www.pythonanywhere.com, and I'm checking it out! Good points about the "polling", I thought I could do it that way but I didn't know the term. I think every 30 minutes will be fine, but I'll check the notifications part. Thanks again for putting me on track.
On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 3:05:22 PM UTC-3, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 2:46 AM Daniel Tkach <hokanok...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What I want to do now is ... I want the Kajabi product be activated for > > that user as soon as he checks out on Shopify and there's a new order, and > > I want this not to depend on my computer. > > > > The first part of that can be done in two ways. One of them depends > 100% on Shopify, the other doesn't. Look at Shopify's API to see if > they have a way to receive notifications, and if so, great! Program > against that. The other option is way less efficient. It's called > "polling" - you set your script up to query Shopify periodically and > see if there's anything new. You'll have to decide a balance between > prompt reaction to orders and load on your and Shopify's servers. If > you poll every hour, a new order may take up to an hour to be noticed > (on average, orders will wait half an hour before they're seen). > Depending on what you're doing, an hour might be fine; even twelve > hours might be okay. But that's for you to decide. > > The second part - having it not depend on your computer - is called > deployment. You get some _other_ computer for it to depend on. There > are a variety of places where you can do that, but before you decide, > figure out what it is you need (ie solve the previous problem). There > are a variety of commercial hosting platforms out there; as a general > rule, you'll pay more if you want more flexibility, so the more > restrictions you're willing to accept, the cheaper it'll be. > > That's just a very broad overview, but hopefully it'll be enough to > start researching on! > > ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
