50 pipe dreams

True, but most of that was pre 2005 days. Back when just a page with thumbnails and 1500 visitors a day brought in $5k.
Was it even possible to not make money in porn before 2007?

offer is gone there are people without a host making money.

can you write? start blogging. review paysites, review cam models, or pick a niche and make quality articles in that niche and push traffic to relevant affiliate offers

comfortable with grunt work? start uploading. plenty of people here will hire you, or you can reupload watermarked videos where the watermark leads to your own url, which you send to affiliate offers

can you program? make an embedded tube or custom cam whitelabel, and try to SEO it

feel like emailing people all day every day? try brokering links (find sites that sell links, and people who want to buy links, and insert yourself as middleman)

All of these can be done, for next to no cost. Just time/effort. You might need a few dollars to get started (hosting, domain, etc) but not very much.

Bummer . . .

What host do you recommend?

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