Case study — Tango Time Travel
How an independent archive project combines publishing, international sales and long-term digital autonomy using all2all infrastructure.
Publishing independently
Editorial presence, catalogue structure and direct control
From the beginning, Tango Time Travel was conceived as an independent publishing project dedicated to historical tango recordings and archive-quality transfers. The website had to serve several functions at once: present editorial work, explain restoration choices, publish release notes, and remain fully readable across languages and devices.
A WordPress structure offered enough flexibility to organise a growing catalogue while preserving editorial freedom and direct control over content. For a project based on long-form documentation and historical detail, this independence remains essential.
We wanted the project to remain readable, maintainable and fully under our control, both editorially and technically.
Direct sales worldwide
WooCommerce, Stripe and direct customer relations
As the catalogue developed, a WooCommerce shop was integrated directly into the site. Collectors and listeners can order without passing through a closed marketplace, while the project keeps its direct relationship with its public.
Payments are processed through Stripe, allowing simple international transactions with direct settlement to the project’s bank account. This keeps the whole sales chain under direct control, without external marketplace dependency.
The system remains based on WordPress, WooCommerce and the Stripe payment gateway: understandable, maintainable and directly connected to the project’s own workflows.
Thanks to the webshop, collectors now order from all over the world. We never expected such an international reach.
Archive growth and dedicated infrastructure
High-resolution audio, CPU time and long-term storage
Behind the public website lies a growing archive of high-resolution audio masters, production files, release documentation and long-term working material. As more recordings are restored and prepared, storage requirements and processing demands increase steadily.
The project is now reaching the point where migration to a dedicated server becomes desirable: full CPU availability for audio preparation, larger storage volumes, and stronger long-term control over archive integrity.
What began as a specialised music archive has become a complete digital publishing environment combining editorial work, e-commerce, customer communication and preservation.
At this stage, we need full CPU time and more storage space for audio production. The archive is growing together with the public project.
Technical stack in production
WordPress, WooCommerce, Stripe and scalable hosting
The public site currently runs on WordPress with WooCommerce integrated directly into the same environment. Payments are handled through Stripe, allowing worldwide transactions with direct settlement to the project’s bank account and simple reconciliation.
Technically, the project is hosted on all2all’s Complete hosting plan using a classic LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MariaDB/MySQL and PHP. This provides a stable production environment for editorial publishing, catalogue maintenance and international webshop activity.
As audio production and archive size continue to grow, the next logical step is migration toward a dedicated server with guaranteed CPU time and expanded storage capacity.
Keeping the whole chain understandable matters: website, payments, archive and hosting should remain readable as one coherent system.