I'd be interested in what you come up with here as well... I don't have any actual experience beyond feasibility-study stage. I joined up with the forums on www.ynot.com - and the advice I got was basically to try the hosts advertising on the site... I found something that looked reasonably together, hosting in the US and Holland (if you're doing some thing... err... "niche" then non-US might be best). I signed up and found that their admin-interface was so buggy that I bailed on it a couple of days later. A week or so later the entire project folded, and that was that.
The ynot forum people are friendly and communicative though - it probably wouldn't hurt to look for advice there if you can't get it elsewhere. Or even if you can. Different laws of physics seem to apply in the adult content world - eg: a lot of them seem to go via CCbill as a payment provider - who seem to offer an out of the box system that requires minimal setup etc, but unless I'm much mistaken, they charge vastly more than normal providers. People pay massive percentages for everything and they just seem to accept it as par for the course. I was involved with another thing back in the UK - the guy was telling me about the dodgy phone-call adverts in the back of magazines... apparently there is so much money in it that the advertising real-estate changes hands several times. People get in first and buy up massive blocks of magazine space at the back knowing that the porn people will buy it off them for even more. And that alas (or not) is the sum total of my knowledge. Nick > Hi, > > Contrary to the subject, I'm not looking for webmasters who are adults. > I'm looking for webmasters who have experience with adult websites - > running them that is, not visiting them :) > > I'm just scoping out a potential job which sells subscription-based > adult content, and wouldn't mind having a quick chat with someone who > has been through this process before. After a few phone calls, it's > evident that none of the banks want to have anything to do with the > site, and setting up a payment facility is looking to be a bit of a > challenge. Aside from that, any extra advice would be appreciated - eg > adult-friendly hosts for video content etc. > > I'd rather learn from someone else's experience rather than have to > navigate the extra difficulties myself. A quick phone chat would be > greatly appreciated - email me off list with your phone number and I'll > call straight away. > > Thanks, > > Harvey. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
