Hi all,
I know this board is frequented by people that work in large paysites. I'm trying to see how useful the stuff I sell is to you guys (link in sig).
The way I see it there are 2 types of traffic in porn:
1) "Static" content: ie pics and vids that are downloaded to a user's computer as whole files. This is the majority of what galleries and TGP's provide. Usually hosted by affiliate webmasters on their own. Alot of these are hosted by sponsor freehosts as well.
2) "Streaming" content: ie either existing streaming vids or webcam stuff. Most of this seams to be hosted by the sponsors.
For the first kind of traffic it seems to be more about quality of bandwidth, rather than hardware.
In my eyes however, virtual servers should offer an attractive alternative for streaming content to a traditional dedicated server model. I say this because this type of media is more intense on the hardware than static files. Virtuozzo allows you to better allocate the server's physical resources, thereby allowing you to get more out of existing hardware.
Right now some of the largest hosting companies in the world use Virtuozzo (ie GoDaddy, ThePlanet). We also signed a large BDSM site a few months ago. I'm not saying this to gloat, just to show you that the technology already works great for them, so in theory it should work great for other paysites as well.
I'd love to hear why my theory is correct or incorrect in practice. Get nitty gritty on the technical side if you have to. Thanks in advance. Peace.
