Prestashop, Forums, WordPress are quite easy and the average person can install it. It also works on Shared Hosting. Make BTC Pay Server like that and people will stop using the demo site as production.
The reason people are using it for production is because you guys made it too hard to install for regular people. The requirements are also way too big. It requires a lot of space and a lot of computer power. It also requires a dedicated server administrator to maintain it. Only advance users can do all this.
I've seen advance users and teams install their own BTCPay Server and open up registration but then we get into the problem of can we trust that instance to not run away with your Bitcoin or install a backdoor. So people prefer to keep using the BTCPay Server Demo.
Another issue I've seen is that the instances are charging monthly fees to use their BTCPay Server. I understand it requires money to run a server but most people using Bitcoin are not making a lot of money from their online stores. This also puts us back into the 3rd party's power.
BTCPay Server needs to be redesigned so it can run on shared hosting. Something simpler and smaller.
If it's capable of running on shared hosting more people will install and use it because most people want to use it for themselves only. They want to be a BTCPay Sever company like Voltage or Blockonomics.
Users who need BTCPay Server for their online stores don't want other people using their BTCPay Sever.
Most people who want to use BTCPay Sever have no intention of opening up registration to other users. They simply want to be the only user so they can sell things from their online store without a 3rd party.
We need a BTCPay Server lite for 1 person only or something along those lines.
I can see in the future getting banned from someone's BTCPay Server. Yes you can go to another server but really there is not many people running BTC Pay Server and you might run into the same issue.
I originally thought I would be able to install BTCPay Server on my shared hosting so I can sell things from my presashop store.
By the way, my prestashop store runs on shared hosting.
BTCPay Server software seems to be more like an enterprise software meant to be run by an enterprise team who want lots of users to sign up to their BTCPay Server instance and make a small cut off them.
Please give up a BTC Pay Server lite so small stores can use it. Lots of people have asked me how they can accept Bitcoin on their stores but as soon as you explain to them the requirements, cost and maintenance fees. It's not worthwhile to them anymore.
Prestashop, Forums, WordPress are quite easy and the average person and are meant for 1 person. Make BTC Pay Server like that.