Jay Marcyes

from the description:

Spreedly lets you collect recurring and one-time subscription payments simply and securely. Your customers can upgrade and renew with ease while you monitor everything from your dashboard.

For $19/month plus transaction fees, this might be a great alternative than trying to do all the Paypal crap myself.

So I was thinking of letting Disqus take over commenting duties on this blog, among others, the problem is I wanted to make sure I had backups of all the comments (because I am crazy like that). The api seems like the best way to achieve this, though I haven't bothered to implement it yet.

here are some other thoughts and write-ups I found:

Duncan Riley isn't sure he wants to move over to Disqus

How to back up Disqus comments (webmonkey)