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Articles by Steven Daris

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Hosting Talk: Scaling Back Intelligently

While some Internet-based adult companies continue to thrive, it’s no secret that the last six or seven years have seen the downsize of many adult companies and their affiliate programs with extensive (yet necessary) cost cutting. Staying competitive and comfortably afloat in this industry requires strategic decision-making, which often results in staff and budget cuts.

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The Buzz Behind Cloud Hosting

The cloud. It’s everywhere (kind of literally, actually) and everyone’s talking about it. But what the hell is it? The cloud is used to market so many different services and technologies that it’s hard to know what you’re being sold, and unless you know the inside details, chances are you’re just hearing another buzz word.

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Hosting Talk: Data-Driven Decision-Making

From the earliest days of the Internet’s rise as a commercial marketplace, there has been a steady improvement in the technology available to monitor and analyze our sites’ traffic patterns. While speculation was once our main tool, webmasters now are able to determine with great specificity where their traffic comes from, both in terms of the geographic locations of their end-users and with respect to the referring URLs, search terms and social media mentions that drive new visitors.

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Hosting Talk: Site Security, Content Protection

Online adult business owners and webmasters face an array of challenges in the current market, everything from competition to piracy, but most recently the Web experienced a world-wide shock with the Heartbleed Bug.

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Hosting Talk: Scaling Back Without Compromising Quality

Budget-trimming has become a part of every business (adult and otherwise) in recent years, an inevitable reaction to sluggish sales that inspires business owners to cut spending, reduce costs and downscale their operations to lessen the financial impact of declining revenues. This process can be painful, as this belt-tightening often is aimed at the heart of the company: its staff.

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Hosting Talk: When ‘Progressive’ Isn’t Quite Enough

While the adult entertainment industry has long enjoyed a reputation for being “tech-forward,” it’s surprising to see so many top adult content sites relying on progressive download, a video delivery method long denounced by the likes of YouTube and Netflix.

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Hosting Talk: Loopholes or Lifelines?

It’s not uncommon to hear many within the online adult entertainment industry adopt less-than-positive opinions regarding Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).

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Hosting Talk: Fast and Furious

In the early days of the Internet, it wasn’t uncommon to wait 30-40 seconds to download even relatively simple pages – slow loading was one of the defining characteristics of the web in its early days. The kind of content-rich websites that we now take for granted were but a glimmer in our eyes.

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Why Top-notch Bandwidth is Worth the Price

The key to attracting, keeping and converting traffic is speed — website speed, that is — and the key to high speed is quality bandwidth. But many online companies make the mistake of choosing budget pricing over bandwidth quality, which is why we’ve compiled four reasons why it’s worth forking out for the good stuff.

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