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with an increasing user base. With modern
VPS management software, you can even use
Many shared hosts have very little to offer in
multiple VPS’s to collectively host your site.
terms of customization. With customization
comes security risk, and many webmasters do
next to nothing to mitigate security risk, so It’s a trivial task to “image” a VPS, meaning
restriction of customization is often necessary you can easily migrate providers if there
to keep a shared host afloat. If you use a VPS, is an issue. Unfortunately, adult content is
you will be able to install other programs,
a hot button issue among web hosts, and
scripts, choose your operating system, and run
it is frequently added to a web host’s list of
your system much more efficiently than you
would be able to with a shared host. It is true prohibited content, so you should image and
that dedicated server hosts and cloud hosts back up your site regularly as a responsible
also provide higher levels of customization.
webmaster.
However, a VPS is a happy medium in most
scenarios. It provides just enough built-in
security depending on whether you select 6. Benefits of a Dedicated
a “managed” or “unmanaged” plan and has Server
just enough customization options that it’s a
winner for most adult webmasters. To be clear, a VPS is essentially a discrete
unit of a dedicated server. Its resources are
4. greater user-level Security not shared by other users. Each webmaster
owns what amounts to a virtual machine on a
When operating an adult website, user
security is always paramount. For obvious dedicated server. A VPS replicates a dedicated
reasons, users are very protective of their server in functionality, and so you essentially
personal information. Various hacks of adult
have all of the benefits of a dedicated server
websites over the years have had devastating
with less security risks. It’s in the web host’s
consequences, and so protecting users should
be a common goal among adult webmasters. best interests to keep the bulk of their users
Using a VPS allows you to set up advanced safe, so by choosing a VPS, you will likely get
metrics and usage data. Combined with any umbrella coverage from the host more so than
common IDS or IPS, any competent network
you would if you chose a dedicated server.
engineer should be able to sniff out attacks and
attempted attacks and thwart them. You can
Overall, each webmaster must make this
also increase user security through your VPS
by following proper procedure for database choice at some point. Shared hosting should
management and storage, as well as frequent always be avoided by serious business, and
purges of user data, unless a specific user is especially by anyone wishing to host adult
abusing your site’s rules.
content. If you aren’t an industry leader, a VPS
is the best option that has a great compromise
5. Parallel Computing and
expansion! between money and functionality. If your adult
website makes it to the big leagues, you may
If we learned anything from the dot com wish to consider renting a dedicated server to
boom, it’s that web apps have the tendency to
keep up with demand. Remember: always make
suddenly grow exponentially, and it’s important
your systems scalable to be able to meet any
to always be ready for sudden expansion as an
adult webmaster. Once you have your website level of demand that comes your way!
hosted on a VPS, almost any provider will allow
you to expand your resource allocation. It’s
similar to having your own server, except you
can add (almost) infinite resources to keep up
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