How to Choose an Adult Web Host
Since the very beginning of the Internet, adult websites have always been huge money makers for their owners. Thousands of dollars can be generated each month from videos, blogs, pictures, TGPs and other adult content. However, although adult websites can be very profitable, there are also many legalities for adult website hosting. Before you host an adult website there are some things you need to know first.
One of the major problems when it comes to laws for adult web hosting is that they vary according to country and sometimes even by regions within a country. The nature of adult websites are basically global, so it can be a very daunting task to try to adhere to all of the different laws from all the different countries and regions. However, there are things adult web hosts can do to help ensure that don’t get into legal trouble.
* Don’t ever have child pornography content on your site
* Also make sure that the models on your adult websites are of legal age. For example, 18 years or older. You will need documents that prove their legal age. If a model can’t provide the documents, then there shouldn’t be any sexually explicit pictures of them on an adult website of yours.
* The first thing that should always be seen by your site visitors is a warning page. This page should mention clearly that the site is an adult website that contains sexually explicit pictures and text that isn’t appropriate for those younger than 21. Another thing you can mention on the warning page is that if it is illegal to view adult websites in the visitor’s country that they shouldn’t enter the website.
Adult web hosts should also have some sort of age verification system. There are lots of ways for circumventing these systems, but at least it will show a good faith effort on your part to stay within the legal requirements for adult website hosting.
It is considered illegal to depict incest, bestiality and rape scenes. Therefore adult web hosts shouldn’t have these types of content on their websites. Another way that you can ensure that an adult website isn’t going to be considered under the law as obscene is to also have content that is non-adult related on the website as well. This will help to ensure that the website has a least a degree of literary, cultural or artistic value to help it pass the test called the Miller Test which is using for determining the obscenity for adult web hosting websites.
How to Choose Adult Web Hosting
Because adult websites have such different requirements than other types of websites, it is very important that you select a web hosting company specializing in adult web hosting. The preferred option is to have a dedicated server to keep your content and data secure and provide additional bandwidth needed for uploading large videos and jpeg files.
Some good hosting companies which accept adult content include:
* HostGator
Their hosting plans for adult web hosting range from $4.95 up to $374.00 a month.
HostGator has a whole range of hosting services and products, including everything from dedicated servers to very affordable website hosting. With the Baby plan you can host an unlimited number of websites using a single account. Regarding hosting adult content, HostGator’s TOS states that they allow adults sites as long as they are legal in the U.S.
HostGator offers a cPanel control panel and also support for MySQL databases, CGI, Perl and PHP. This highly recommend web host is one of the few who offers monthly plans.
* WebHostingPad
Their plans for adult web hosting start at $3.95 a month.
WebHostingPad is a specialist in affordable website hosting. They have unlimited hosting accounts starting at $1.99 a month. According to the WebHostingPad FAQ page, adult content can hosted on the company’s servers.
WebHostingPad has Linux based web servers and offers support for a majority of standard scripting languages, including Ruby on Rails, CGI, Perl and PHP. The number of websites that you can host with a single account is unlimited.
* ThePlanet.com
Hosting accounts for adult content websites on dedicated servers start at $60 a month.
Adult websites put huge loads on web servers because of video streaming and other types of content. A dedicated server hosting plan from ThePlanet is recommended if you have a budget for it. It will give you more flexibility and power.
ThePlanet has a wide product range of dedicated hosting, everything from fully managed servers down to cheap dedicated servers. You can choose the specifications for your server so there really are no limits to what you can get.
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