Isn’t Gumroad runs on top of Stripe itself?

Looks like that might be the case. I might have been confusing Gumroad with Braintree. I was only attempting to give an example, not advocating for one specific processor.

Good job Cloudflare

Still expensive

Do you use any external dedicated host?

Hetzner.de

Which dedicated infra host did you use?

We bounced around through a few different hosts in the first two or three years of our operation, but for the past four years we've been consistently with SingleHop, now an INAP company. They've been great through the entire time that we've worked with them and have saved our asses on more than one occasion, especially back before mitigation tech like CloudFlare Spectrum was available.

So what is going to happen now that iNAP has filed for Chapter 11?

( Interesting there is no official words on the website. But that is what Wiki shows. )

How come a listing with full details available publically can never make it to top of Ycombinator but a medium article with gated content ranks on top?

What do you mean by "a listing with full details available publically"? Can you give examples of articles you feel should make it to the top to HN but haven't?

The answer to why this one is doing well is clear from the comments: a lot of readers found a lot to identify with in the article. That's the important thing, not what site it appears on.

We use PayPal and Stripe together.

People trust PayPal a lot more compared to Stripe. The dispute handling process is something which is really good PayPal innovation.

With Stripe people only have option to chargeback incase of any issues.

Probably written by GP2.

Which means you can't add outbound external links on top of YouTube videos from now on.

That is the exact reason why we launched MailGet which is a hosted solution for sending emails using Amazon SES.

Check it at https://formget.com/mailget-app/