How to make an application run "online"

[Daniel Tkach]

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 <hokanokoto at 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