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With tube sites now being a mainstay of the adult industry, tube sites are now virtually unavoidable for many webmasters. However, many smaller webmasters lack the technical expertise and funds to start good tube sites.

This is where a smart hosting company could step in.

There are many tube scripts, and most of them suck balls. They're often not scalable, don't handle design implementation well, don't do encoding, are not suitable for the adult model, etc. The fundamental problem is that in many cases, they simply aren't made with the adult industry in mind, or only function as glorified mgps.

A hosting company that had its own tube script developed and offered it as a ready-made integrated tube hosting solution could easily take up a fairly large share of the lower bracket of the market.

Now, at first glance, the lower bracket of the market might not seem particularly attractive. However, keeping in mind the relatively large part of revenue that tube sites spend on bandwidth, the outlook becomes quite a bit brighter.

It gets even better if you consider that the bandwidth would be sold at a premium because of the added service. This becomes truly profitable once sites start growing, and webmasters keep paying above-average rates for their bandwidth because their sites are locked into you platform.

Moreover, it would be fairly simple to increase additional profits significantly by striking up deals with design companies, content providers for seeder content, and of course affiliate programs.

The base cms for such a system would have to satisfy certain demands. It should be easily customizable design-wise, should integrate well with traffic management and ad management systems, probably shouldn't allow user uploads (to avoid content theft and the inevitable hassles it causes), would definitely have to support importing feeds from sponsors, and would have to support encoding of webmaster uploads as well.

So, initial investments would be sizable. The benefit of locking customers in to your platform and thus your bandwidth prices should easily make up for that, though.

Anyway, just a random thought.

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