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    Wink VPS + Adult = $ ?

    So I have VPS with 1GB a month bandwidth a month (1024MB memory) and I was wondering what I could do with some of that that lovely bandwidth and maybe make a penny or two.

    One idea I was kicking around was to setup a porn video streaming website like RedTube.

    Does anyone have any experience with such a site, and if a VPS is capable of such a feat. I know it all depends on how many visitors a site has but does anyone have any facts or figures of bandwidth requirements vs how much you can actually earn?

    Let's say you have a cool video site,with some nice videos about 320x240 resolution with some decent affiliate banners, how much can you realisticly expect to make out of 1000GB bandwidth once it's depleted?

    It's a very general and naive question, I know. But I think it's an important one and a very rough estimate of what one can expect. I realise RedTube etc must plough through TB's abd TB's each week...

    Can you expect $1? $10?100%? I am just trying to determine whether to make any money in that line of work you can do so with a simple VPS, or if you have to buy thousands of dollars worth of hardware/bandwidth to ever have a chance of breaking even.
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    I don't see why not. A vps will be able to handle it for a while...then when you become bigger you will need to expand to a dedicated server.
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    When running that type of site. I would be at first less concerned with hardware and more concerned with compliance. There are a lot of rules that you need to follow otherwise uncle sam might give you a hard time.

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    Yeah, I am sure there are lot of legalities involved with the US government Unless you rent the VPS in Holland. But I was just curious how much one could make out of 1000MB bandwidth as a gauge.

    Edit: Didn't mean to put that icon up there. Was meant to be a smile.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nytol View Post
    Yeah, I am sure there are lot of legalities involved with the US government Unless you rent the VPS in Holland. But I was just curious how much one could make out of 1000MB bandwidth as a gauge.

    Edit: Didn't mean to put that icon up there. Was meant to be a smile.
    depends. If your an affiliate with others how many times a single person watches a video. if you have membership plans etc. you could use 1000gb of bandwidth * which I hope is what you mean instead of mb* and make 0 dollars without a plan or you could make 1000+ a month that way.
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    Yeah, sorry I meant 1000GB. My initial idea was to use my VPS to display videos (buy in content so it's all legit) and run affiliate banners. I guess a paid membership might make more money. I will think about it and maybe give it a go, and see what happens.

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    Bandwidth isn't really a figure you can compare to revenue for a website...
    Unless your providing a service where clients are monitored, limited and billed by usage such as hosting or rapidshare...
    In the long run for sites like red tube you will generate statistics for how much bandwidth will cost and the returns but these are not really something you can calculate prior to the business/website starting.
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    There are just too many variables to give you a good estimate I think. It just really depends on how popuplar your site is, with links it's all about your traffic and no one can predict that for you (even if you do have a really nice site) it's kinda like being able to predict your success.

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    I wouldn't bother hosting the videos yourself, most decent affiliate programs have videos you're allowed to hotlink if you promote their sites.

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    1000GB of bandwidth will give you nothing... I have a porn website of my own.. you need to have more than that if you are planning to earn real money.. having about 10thousand visitors per day will earn you about $5 depends on the clicks and it depends on the size of the videos you have..

    My site eats about 200GB of bandwidth each day.. but my videos are average 1 - 10MB per video clip

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    Quote Originally Posted by whazapa View Post
    1000GB of bandwidth will give you nothing... I have a porn website of my own.. you need to have more than that if you are planning to earn real money.. having about 10thousand visitors per day will earn you about $5 depends on the clicks and it depends on the size of the videos you have..

    My site eats about 200GB of bandwidth each day.. but my videos are average 1 - 10MB per video clip

    start off with 10TB of bandwidth and get signup with blacklabelads.com a division of adbrite.com
    Not to steal any thunder from this thread but where would a webmaster gain access to high quality clips? Basically, are the clips on redtube, tube8, xnxx, etc all the same being randomly uploaded or are these paid subscriptions to content? I've always been curious about this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mekhu View Post
    Not to steal any thunder from this thread but where would a webmaster gain access to high quality clips? Basically, are the clips on redtube, tube8, xnxx, etc all the same being randomly uploaded or are these paid subscriptions to content? I've always been curious about this.
    They are uploaded by the user not the admin

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    well for me since Im very strict with the server resources... I download.. re-encode into a smaller file using h264 codec then re-upload ... and the quality is not that great but its decent for the viewers to enjoy... thats why i said my clips are about 1 to 10 mb average in size ...

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    theres another option where people takes sex video clips of them selves using a cellphone and they upload it...or somehow their private acts goes out to the internet.. lol

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