Running a really big mainstream site, would it matter your hosting company was mostly adult?
 

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I say this because there is one company on here in particular that is the way to go.

None of my mainstream sites seems to have been affected in any way. Just put your mainstream site on a different ip number than any of your adult sites, so if people do a reverse lookup they cannot find any other sites on that specific ip number. Ideally you might even want a separate C class ip number than any of your own adult sites. Other than that, you're good to go!

nothing wrong with adult hosting for mainstream sites, just keep them on a separate ip as stated above

Paranoia....

i would pick someone that is already hosted with a large traffic base

Some of my mainstream sites are in porn neighborhoods and they are doing just fine.

It does not matter.

Malwarebytes bans lots of IP's from tube sites esp whole ip range of webazilla, and this affected a few mainstream sites hosted there by some my friends. They even wrote to malwarebytes showing proof that's different IP and legit sites and losing biz because unreachable by malwarebytes users, and reply it was "webazilla hosts lots of bad stuff" and they did not unbanned the ip, is been like a year now.

We do mainly mainstream hosting.

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=AS:35415

Of 7184 domains spidered, 313 either had malware detected or acted as malware gateways. Probably less than half the malware was caught, so if 5% had noticeable malware, more than 10% are infected.

You should look at NatNet they are the best and deal with a bunch mainstream sites.

We are a major supporter of the adult industry and hosts many adult sites. That said, we also host mainstream sites and it has never come up as an issue for these clients.

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If you are that concerned, take the extra 2 minutes to set up different IP's and name servers. That way your mainstream are lumped together, and your adult are lumped together, if so inclined. I personally would not want them all intermixed, the same way I separate sites by IP's putting them on different one's.

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Personally, I like to use different servers. Normally they have different needs - adult needs more bandwidth, some of my mainstream needs super high uptime and reliability.

I have seen a few corporate firewall products that will block everything from an IP address if it has even one adult site on it, so probably best to use a different IP at least.

We also have lots of both adult and mainstream customers. I can't remember anyone ever bringing this issue up as a problem of any kind.

We were split on opinions as to what to do, is a different IP address enough or do we need to be concerned about our neighbors within the same IP block. I decided to be cautious to be have another dedicated server, at a company where most clients are mainstream.

Likely an unnecessary move, but we have had to deal with being blacklisted for things that had nothing to do directly with us, but others within the same block.

It shouldn't matter, we have lots of main stream clients that found us through our adult marketing sites.

A lot of people just want the performance and security that comes from an adult host.

It wouldn't matter. If anyone is looking to buy mainstream sites that make money, check out my sig.

in general it dont matter.

doesnt matter at all. Ive got some mainstream and porn sites on same IP's and nameservers and it's fine.

I have 5 dedicated servers with mojo :)

It may be "fine" for you but in general it's never a good idea to share the same IPs between mainstream and porn sites.

That at the very least is the one thing you should never do.

Hi Johnny,

That shouldn't be any issue, to be safe you could put your mainstream and adult site on the same server on their own IP though.

I dunno how big your site is or what your needs are, but a simple solution would be to open up a small hosting account at HostGator?

Its dirt cheap and there are so many sites hosted there i'd doubt you could get penalised for being on the same shared hosting as other porn sites.