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Originally Posted by plsureking
bro that is why i switched PornCMS to included hosting awhile ago. all those people getting your updates for free and reselling their sites also pay monthly for hosting. bundle the hosting and you can at least get some recurring income.
providing the hosting also lets you do other things like share resources between sites. we have a couple dozen streaming media servers and all sites get to use them. so even a little $50 a month site will have fast streaming video.
i also built dedicated video conversion servers and download servers. none of that overhead is on the front-end servers or media servers.
if you don't provide hosting, you are putting your client's server management in the hands of some hosting company that gives zero shits about the end user experience. a dedicated host isn't looking at your log files or your passfiles for problems. they are only watching their machines. your machines are there to serve the visitors!
we built a comprehensive security system that looks at each site and server log every minute, then looks at the whole network for bigger problems. we catch password sharing and hackers at the network level and ban them from media access within minutes. those Chinese intrusion attacks happening to every adult site all day long? we send them to hell within minutes. they never affect the end user experience.
in my opinion, you need to provide hosting too 
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Thanks for the advice - but keep in mind we are really hitting two different markets. You are doing paysites and we are doing mostly tubes. A paysite wont get the traffic or even have a fraction of the bandwidth usage as a tube, and thus the risk/reward is someone doesn't pay is much worse when you dont have your own infrastructure and aren't paying huge bandwidth commitments anyways. Someone might get a sudden surge to their tube, use thousands of TB in bandwidth and decide not to pay - i'd suddenly be on the hook for a ton of money but at the same time not enough to litigate internationally for.
It's of course different if you are a webhost and have your own infrastructure. Webhosts buy their bandwidth in blocks so they are paying weither they're clients are using it or not - that same client that doesn't pay is just lost profit, not an out of pocket cost like it would be for me. They'd be out of pocket the server cost but would just resell it to another customer down the line later anyways.
That's why having a deal with Mojohost like we do works for us rather then trying to do it ourselves.