Ok just been thinking here....

I have had a few people asking me for adult hosting. I dont offer that at this time but I got to thinking. Whats the difference between a non-adult site buying say an account with 5gigs bandwidth and an adult site? If they are willing to pay the extra whats the big difference?

I know they may use more CPU with CGI and stuff but is there a way to limit that?

What I am tring to figure out is what I should do if I offer adult hosting. Keep my plans the same for both or charge more or what?

Most adult web masters are willing to pay more for bandwidth. Most hosts I know that host adult sites charge per Gig. You will find adult web sites eat bandwidth like nothing.

You also have to take the legal matters into consideration.

I would also think that they would be higher profile targets for crackers than your average site.

Certainly a site with pay memberships would be targeted to gain free access to the content.

Aye. I never even thought of the crackers/subscription problem. Good point.

hmmm...
No idea what to do.

Here is what you can do if you don't want to manage the server for adult hosting. Sign up as a reseller and let the webmaster worry about hackers/crackers. This will leave the burden to secure the server up to them.

Just my 2 cents :)

Actually I believe the crackers are trying to get password access to your clients, not you as the host.

e.g.: your client is an adult site which has a membership access where their members pay to see the content. The content is pass protected. The crackers use programs to match common UN's and PW's together to gain access. Most of the time, the crackers have their own message boards where they release this info. Many times they sit around taking requests to crack into a number of adult sites.

However, this is your clients problem, not yours. You provide server security, not site security. That's their job..

Crackers are a legit problem to adult hosts. They will run scripts to try login/password combinations by brute force, possibly using up server resources.

Also, if somebody shares the password to an adult site over the internet, there will be a big jump in bandwidth usage. Collecting the bill from adult webmasters may be more problematic.