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Originally Posted by Tubie28

I’m just about to venture into the world of adult tube sites, I was meant to do this at the beginning of the year but got delayed. Anyway, I suppose it’s a bit naive to think I can just step straight into the game without any real experience but it’s my intention to more or less copy other tube sites, maybe even steal their shit. (if that’s allowed of course)

First off there is a legal way and illegal way of running of tube site and you're not going to get much help staying in your post "maybe even steal their shit". That is HIGHLY unacceptable. Second there are tube sites that are illegal, they have stolen content or post full videos. If you want to start a tube site get permission from the sponsors you want to use and make sure they allow tube sites and ones that do, will have mpegs and/or wmv files that you can download and put on your tube site. Never steal a full movie and post it on your tube site you will start receiving C&D's and DMCA violation notices.

Originally Posted by Tubie28

My question has to do with servers. I don’t really know anything about them and someone told me I would need a dedicated server to run a site like YouPorn, RedTube, YouLeak, PornHub, Tube8 etc. I looked to see what the main sites use to host the sites – RedTube uses Choopa, prices are incredible, over $2000 per month for a good spec. Same goes for YouPorn, they are with Softlayer and cost as much. YouLeak and Tube8 are even more strange because the server is their own name. How much must this cost!!!

Now getting into server pricing. What do you expect when you're going to be running all video. It's not like you're setting up a TGP and having HTML & JPEG's, you're dealing with 100% videos. Yes server prices are going to cost a lot and there is going to be a big initial investment before you start seeing any return, IF ANY return. As for YouLeak & Tube8 running on their own data center, I highly doubt it, they probably just have their own DNS servers at a host. But expect a good amount of money to be dropped on bandwidth when you're dealing strictly with video files and don't expect a return in a month or two, usually you won't see that type of return on TGP's unless you have really good traffic trades.

Originally Posted by Tubie28

I’ve spent a lot of money up to now getting a script written and I might not even be able to use it because of the ludicrous server costs! Am I jumping the gun here? Is there another option regarding servers or are the only people who can start these sites millionaires?

Lastly, it seems that you didn't do proper research from the beginning. If you knew you were going to spend a lot of money on the script why wouldn't you have researched what it would cost for servers and bandwidth? That should have been one of the first things you looked into BEFORE paying for any programming and scripting, and that is how you shot yourself in the foot. But it doesn't take a millionaire to start a site, it takes somebody that is smart and nows how to bring back a return and get their money back. If you do it right and LEGAL, read that again, LEGAL, you should see a return at some point. I'm not too knowledge able with tube sites and don't know their return, I just know the legalities and copyright issues of running one since I work with a sponsor.