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Using Open Source Databases

As the Internet matures, so will the amount of traffic packets and raw data will also grow. For a small startup, this amount of data is easy to deal with, but as a business expands simply storing endless files on disk just doesn’t cut it. You need software that organizes and protects data — a relational database.

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Adult Biz Eyes Twitterverse

The new phenomenon in computing is, of course, mobile computing. Today more potential customers of adult content are found walking around fiddling with their mobile devices than behind computer screens. Emerging out this wireless paradigm appears Twitter.com — nothing unique about Twitter, just a way to broadcast messages to multiple mobile users. Yet what is so unique about HTML and the browser? Nothing at all — aside form the fact that they have become the standard for worldwide information sharing over the Internet.

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Top Ten Tasks for 2009

With the slowing economy and people out of work, 2009 will be a year of fortification for the adult webmaster. Instead of a time when new technology dominates, this will be a year in which just maintaining your revenue position will become paramount.

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Top 10 Tools for Today's Adult Webmaster

For the most part, these top-ten software offerings represent a refinement of new technologies, not the pioneering of them.

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Porn Animé and High-Tech Graphics

As with many areas of computer science, such as wireless communications, intelligent bots, and CMS tools, the adult industry is also pushing ahead of the curve in animation and graphics.

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Cascade Billing Solutions

If you have a single credit card processor and the interface is down, or for some reason, your customer's credit card is declined, you will probably lose that business.

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Anonymous Web Surfing

When users surf the net, browsing for their heart's desire, every click and page request is recorded, and a physical address is logged in the form of an IP address.

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Virtual Reality in Adult

In the 1980s, author William Gibson came out with the best-selling Sci-Fi thriller Neuromancer. The novel painted a future where people plugged their senses into a world-wide network and had experiences almost as real as this world.

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Special Report: cPanel Keeps it Simple

While webmasters were once forced to use old Unix-based tools to manage their websites, today, website management is highly automated and an industry leader has emerged: cPanel.

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CPanel Keeps it Simple

During the 1990s, when adult content providers moved toward the Internet and away from brick-and-mortar business solutions, webmasters were largely forced to use old Unix-based tools to manage their websites.

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Using OpenSource Databases

As the online adult industry grows across the Internet, by definition, the amount of traffic packets and raw data will also grow. For a small startup, this amount of data is easy to deal with, but as an x-business expands, simply storing endless files on disk just doesn't cut it.

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Got Bots?

What are patrons of adult websites really looking for? We could say they are looking for excitement, sexual titillation, or we might surmise they are just bored. Ultimately though, each of these motivations is only a surface effect of a deeper malady that affects our civilization: People are lonely.

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Shopping for a Merchant Account

The business around credit cards processed online, both from a technical and business level, is always changing.

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Finding an Adult Host

You are ready to build the sexiest, wildest site in the history of the human race, a site that will make you thousands of dollars in revenue. What's your next step?

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SEO Means and Myths

For any online business, regardless of its advertising budget, search engine referrals account for a huge percentage of sales.

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Blog Happy

With a blog, the realization of the easy exchange of text and images across the Internet, building your own adult website is as simple as sending an email.

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Spam is Everywhere

The adult webmaster, due to the nature of his or her niche, receives a huge volume of email that is junk — spam.

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Secure Your Domain

One of the most valuable assets that an adult webmaster has — even more valuable than their content — is their domain name. Your domain name is your brand, and like Wheaties cereal, it hopefully has a following. For instance, imagine suddenly owning the domain www.barelylegal.com or maybe www.clubjenna.com, let alone www.playboy.com. Just this ownership alone would guarantee a huge stream of revenue each month as traffic flows to whatever content you provide.

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Free Tools for Webmasters

Aside from content, the most important factor that will distinguish one adult site from another is the site’s design and overall feeling. If a site looks mediocre, well then, how important can it be? If a website is flashy and slick and stands out, it has a better chance of being taken seriously and drawing in repeat customers.

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You Really Need a Firewall

Without firewalls the Internet age would already be over. With the nature of TCP-IP and HTTP, any user on the Internet can access any valid computer on the Internet. As we know, every website and every computer communicating with the Internet is assigned either a temporary or permanent IP address. This makes every computer connected to the Internet vulnerable — by definition.

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