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Jul 2010

Hey there! :-)



I host my file on amazon s3 - because of its size. I made it public and can download it when I enter the URL into my browser. But when I test the download via ejunkie all I get is:



" This file is served directly by the seller. At this moment seller's server has failed to respond. Please try again later. "



Any ideas?!



Greetings,



André

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Do you have the product configured with a full Remote Product File URL starting with http://...etc. ?



If that's right, please provide that remote file URL and the Item Number of the product which is configured to issue that file, and also include the Transaction IDs (from your E-junkie Seller Admin > View Transaction Log) of any affected orders which resulted in that error message, in an email message directly to support (so you don't have to share your file URL nor Transaction IDs here):

https://www.e-junkie.com/ej/contact.php

Hey there! :-)



I did everything right - but then I became an email from your apache saying that you don't suppurt files > 2GB. So there was the problem... Have it as an uncloaked link on my thank you page now - not really happy with it, but seems the only way to go, right?!



Greetings and thanks!



André

Ooh, true we cannot handle files larger than ~2GB as a soft maximum; serious problems increasingly crop up as we've tried to pass that boundary. You might consider splitting your file into two or more separate files, each assigned to a separate product, then use our "Package files from other products" setting to create a "bundle" product that issues download links for all those files at once:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.package.htm#bundle



Also bear in mind how long you'd be expecting buyers to babysit a download that large. Any download can only be as fast as the slowest link in the chain, which is usually the buyer's own ISP connection. Over a typical residential broadband connection of 1.5Mbps, it would take at least 3 hours to download a 2GB file, or about a full day over a basic 256kbps DSL connection, never mind the several days it would take over dialup connection.



For sellers with extremely large files such as yours, we've been recommending our SwiftCD integration to have them automatically duplicate your files/data to a CD/DVD and mail that to buyers on-demand whenever an order comes in:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.htm#swiftcd



However, we've just found out that SwiftCD has recently started requiring a minimum contract dealing only with incorporated/LLC businesses, so if you're not an incorporated company or not willing to commit to a contract, you may need to find another CD/DVD fulfillment service that can accept PayPal IPN, which is the format our generic Integration feature follows. As long as they can accept IPNs that don't come from PayPal, don't need to validate IPNs with PayPal (which would fail since we are not PayPal, and we validate the original IPN with PayPal anyway before we forward it), and can handle or ignore the extra fields we add to the basic IPN data set, they should be able to work with our Integration feature to send discs automatically for you.

Hey thanks for that great support!! :-))



I offer my clients 2 ways to download the 4,2 GB of content.. :wink: One is here through e-junkie and I set up a membersblog with memberwing (works wonderful now with e-junkie! :slight_smile: ) where they can download it in 9 pieces. So that their DSL can take some breaks... :wink:



The idea of SwiftCD is cool - I am going to check that out - so far I know kunkaki.com which is also very good. I am thinking about if there should be a physical version at all...



You really offer awesome support - thanks again! :-)



André