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Back in university, I used to run a porn site on one of these free Apache based 'Unlimited' hosting. Needlessly to say, I have to agree with you, it did do a q

Back in university, I used to run a porn site on one of these free Apache based 'Unlimited' hosting. Needlessly to say, I have to agree with you, it did do a quite a bit of traffic: 250gb but began to struggle once the concurrency reached past 40 users. I remember logged into ssh, monitoring when the site would go down so I could restart the Apache server (wasn't aware of upstart and other techniques back then all I knew was how to jack nulled PHP scripts, upload it on free hosting, and spam forums to get people to jerk off to Japanese porno tube. Nevertheless, I made small monthly income to pay for cigarettes and food through university thanks to Apache and cheap cheap 'Unlimited' hosting. I eventually bought a huge $100/month server back in 2009 and that's when things started going south ad revenues started to fall for the adult industry.

fluxquanta 11y ago
Off topic a bit, but it's interesting to hear your perspective on this. Everyone always says "Porn is 90% of the internet" but you never seem to hear from the developers who actually run the sites. Is it shame from being associated with something that people may find "immoral" that keeps these devs quiet? I would really be curious to hear more about developers who work in this field, especially for the big -tube sites.
- jorgecurio 11y ago
  haha sure I can throw my 2 cents in here. I don't think they are ashamed but they hang out at places like gfy.com, a cesspool of adult site owners and affiliate marketers, who ironically are hostile towards tube sites as 'stealing content'. Then one spring afternoon in 2008, I was pondering what I'm going to do for money while sitting around campus then it just hit me that the fastest way to get traffic therefore more money was porn. I did have some qualms particularly because it felt like I was doing something...that might be looked down upon but then I thought it was pretty fucking stupid since I'm not the one making porn (although I did think about this too) so I felt like this was a good way to learn PHP&MySQL(lol) so I went for it. And it paid dividends throughout university. I heard a local guy who founded youjizz.com pulling in $100,000+ CAD /month from webcam ads but this was 2008. I think the advertisement have declined significantly since then and I've moved on to more meaningful problems to solve rather than dealing with the intracicies of delivering smut to the end user on budget web hosting. I don't know if it's worth it to make porn sites anymore. There's large tube sites that just dominate the traffic. I consider my own tube porn site to be a failure for not reaching that level of status. But boy did I spend a lot of time getting it all up and running. Equally more innovative was the spamming tools I wrote for forums and watermarking porn videos automatically via ffmpeg and uploading it to multiple websites. Actually ended up spinning off a SaaS business from that script.
mschuster91 11y ago
Shit, that's awesome. Please, if you're in Germany, drop me an email. I'd love to share a beer with you!
- jorgecurio 11y ago
  wow, thank you. Will shoot you an email if I happen to be in Germany!

fluxquanta 11y ago

Off topic a bit, but it's interesting to hear your perspective on this. Everyone always says "Porn is 90% of the internet" but you never seem to hear from the developers who actually run the sites. Is it shame from being associated with something that people may find "immoral" that keeps these devs quiet? I would really be curious to hear more about developers who work in this field, especially for the big -tube sites.

jorgecurio 11y ago
haha sure I can throw my 2 cents in here. I don't think they are ashamed but they hang out at places like gfy.com, a cesspool of adult site owners and affiliate marketers, who ironically are hostile towards tube sites as 'stealing content'. Then one spring afternoon in 2008, I was pondering what I'm going to do for money while sitting around campus then it just hit me that the fastest way to get traffic therefore more money was porn. I did have some qualms particularly because it felt like I was doing something...that might be looked down upon but then I thought it was pretty fucking stupid since I'm not the one making porn (although I did think about this too) so I felt like this was a good way to learn PHP&MySQL(lol) so I went for it. And it paid dividends throughout university. I heard a local guy who founded youjizz.com pulling in $100,000+ CAD /month from webcam ads but this was 2008. I think the advertisement have declined significantly since then and I've moved on to more meaningful problems to solve rather than dealing with the intracicies of delivering smut to the end user on budget web hosting. I don't know if it's worth it to make porn sites anymore. There's large tube sites that just dominate the traffic. I consider my own tube porn site to be a failure for not reaching that level of status. But boy did I spend a lot of time getting it all up and running. Equally more innovative was the spamming tools I wrote for forums and watermarking porn videos automatically via ffmpeg and uploading it to multiple websites. Actually ended up spinning off a SaaS business from that script.

mschuster91 11y ago

Shit, that's awesome. Please, if you're in Germany, drop me an email. I'd love to share a beer with you!

jorgecurio 11y ago
wow, thank you. Will shoot you an email if I happen to be in Germany!