All About Adult Web Hosting

Ever since the Internet came into existence, online adult websites have been a huge money-making venture for their owners. Adult website owners can literally generate thousands of dollars every month from adult content, videos, pictures, adult blogs, TGPs etc. However, even though adult sites may be profitable, there are a lot of legalities involved with adult website hosting. Here’s what you need to know before hosting an adult website.

Legalities Of Adult Web Hosting

The main problem with adult web hosting laws is that they differ from country to country and even from region to region in the same country. And since adult websites are global in nature, adhering to all the different laws in different locations can be quite a task. However, there are some things you can do as an adult web host to ensure that you do not fall in trouble with the law.

• Never have any content on your site that depicts child pornography
• Always ensure that any model used on your adult website is of legal age, i.e 18 years and above. You need to have documents that prove the legality of their age. If any model cannot furnish such documents, you should never have their sexually explicit pictures on your adult website.
• Always have a warning page that is the first thing your site visitors see. This warning page should clearly mention that yours is an adult website with sexually explicit text and pictures that are not appropriate for anyone under the age of 21. The warning page can also mention that if viewing adult websites is illegal in the visitor’s country, they should not enter your website.
• Having any kind of Age Verification System is also advisable for adult web hosts. Although there are many ways to circumvent such systems, you will at least have shown good faith effort to stay within the legalities of adult website hosting.

Also, depicting scenes of rape, bestiality, and incest are also considered illegal and thus adult web hosts should refrain from having such content on their sites. Another way of ensuring that your adult website is not considered obscene under the law is to have non-adult related content on your site too. This helps to make your website have some degree of artistic, cultural, or literary value, which will enable it to pass the Miller Test for determining obscenity of any adult web hosting site.

Choosing An Adult Web Host

Since an adult website has very different requirements from other types of sites, it is essential that you choose a hosting company that specializes in adult web hosting. A dedicated server is the preferred option as it gives you security of your data and content and also provides site owners with added bandwidth which will be needed to upload several jpeg files and large videos.

Suggested Adult Web Hosting Companies

Here are some good web hosting companies who accept adult content :

HostGator.com
Adult Web Hosting Plans from $4.95 to $374.00 per month

HostGator offers a wide range of hosting products and services from affordable website hosting to dedicated servers. Their Baby plan allows you to host unlimited websites on a single account. Here’s the excerpt from their TOS about hosting adult content on their servers :

Do you allow adult sites?
Yes, we allow adult sites. They must be legal in the United States of America.

HostGator provides cPanel control panel as well as support for PHP, Perl, CGI and MySQL databases. They are one of the few web hosts to offer monthly plans.
Highly recommended.

WebHostingPad.com
Adult Web Hosting Plans from $3.95 per month

WebHostingPad specializes in affordable website hosting. At the time of this writing, you can get an unlimited hosting account for as low as $1.99 per month. WebHostingPad also allows adult content to be hosted on their servers according to their FAQ page :

Can I host adult websites at WebHostingPad?
Yes, WebHostingPad allows adult website hosting.

Based on Linux Web Servers, WebHostingPad offers support for the most standard scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, CGI and Ruby on Rails. You can host an unlimited number of websites (domains) on a single account.