Playmak3r - Adult Tube Journey to $$$$/day

how long you waited to get out of sandbox ?
This website is 6 months old, but it's too early to ensure he really got out of the sandbox, which happens before websites that get a fast jump and go back to how it was before ... :) to ensure this is a sure boost need to pass at least 2 weeks.
 
Setup
DMCA Free hosting. (Website server + storage server for videos)
KVS Script + Custom Development.
Hosting videos + CDN.

Total cost so far: Around $5000-ish for web development + server/cdn costs.


Goal
Obviously to make as much as possible. I'm ready to go - for the first year and hopefully start recouping my costs in the second year.

My Plan
Focus on providing unique content while using earnings from my other adult journey (https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/playmak3r-adult-cam-whitelabel-journey-thatll-make-me-rich.1368370/) to pay for running costs + good backlinks. I'm also targeting T1 countries only, which has been very successful so far!

Analytics
I don't have a full 28-day period of analytics so i'm providing the last 14 days for now. Site is growing very good and hope to keep it up :D
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Misc
This is my third time trying to run an adult tube. I've learned lots and really feel like this is the time i'm gonna profit hard :D
Wishing you all the best on this
 
Sorry for the lack of updates BHW!!

News
I am now happy to tell you we have reached new traffic milestones and started working with better direct advertisers aswell as working on expansion
- Website (1) has reached stable 150k/users per day.
- Website (2) has reached stable 20k/users per day
- Started working with a new direct advertiser in September and we have renewed in October, November, and now renewed for December month! Compared to ad-networks i've worked with before we pretty much have 30% higher rates on CPM ads.
- Rev share ads are performing better. We are keeping "old spenders" while converting new. It's pretty much a snowball that gets bigger and bigger!
- Website 3 is in development and plan on launching mid-2026. This website will have better design aswell as more features like membership subscriptions and will try recruit content creators.
- Our team has expanded and we are now (4) people on this project.


Here is a few issues we've had! This project is not a walk in the park :D
- Faced a few hacking attempts. (Poor me almost had heart attack)
- Some users tried sneaking in illegal content on the website
- Database overload x 2
- De-indexed from Bing and DuckDuckGo (Not even our homepage shows up.) This was 110% done by a competitor since we are in an "OK" niche. been e-mailing back and forth with Bing but they won't budge.
- Website cloning (So far there is 3 clones of our top website. But we have pretty much stopped them from grabbing our content...Thank god for our web-developer!)


Here's what we are focusing on right now
- Keep up with our constant/stable growth
- Finishing website (3) while not dropping quality on website (1) and (2)
- Plan future expansions and create/improve relationships with direct advertisers.


A few words from Playmak3r

Sorry for the lack of updates on this journey! I'm not much of a writer and like to work in the dark. On average this projects costs me about 12-14 hours per day and it's consuming most of my time. I will try my best to keep the updates coming and answering your questions but i cant promise anything. I've added my Telegram and Discord username on my profile if anyone wants to reach me....Or remind me to update this thread :D

If you have questions i prefer if you ask them in the thread and i will do my best. But if you need a quick reply or notice that i'm not updating anymore. You are very welcome to ping me in Discord or Telegram.


Clarification: When i say "Stable 150k/users per day" its usually around 160-170k. I just mean that it could be christmas day and there is 0% chance that we go below 150k. It's pretty much just a milestone that i threw out there.

EDIT1: Remember that this is a journey thread and not a METHOD thread. Please stop asking me about my niches and how i get website traffic. I'm fine with asking most questions but not anything that could have a negative impact on my project.
 
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Sorry for the lack of updates BHW!!

News
I am now happy to tell you we have reached new traffic milestones and started working with better direct advertisers aswell as working on expansion
- Website (1) has reached stable 150k/users per day.
- Website (2) has reached stable 20k/users per day
- Started working with a new direct advertiser in September and we have renewed in October, November, and now renewed for December month! Compared to ad-networks i've worked with before we pretty much have 30% higher rates on CPM ads.
- Rev share ads are performing better. We are keeping "old spenders" while converting new. It's pretty much a snowball that gets bigger and bigger!
- Website 3 is in development and plan on launching mid-2026. This website will have better design aswell as more features like membership subscriptions and will try recruit content creators.
- Our team has expanded and we are now (4) people on this project.


Here is a few issues we've had! This project is not a walk in the park :D
- Faced a few hacking attempts. (Poor me almost had heart attack)
- Some users tried sneaking in illegal content on the website
- Database overload x 2
- De-indexed from Bing and DuckDuckGo (Not even our homepage shows up.) This was 110% done by a competitor since we are in an "OK" niche. been e-mailing back and forth with Bing but they won't budge.
- Website cloning (So far there is 3 clones of our top website. But we have pretty much stopped them from grabbing our content...Thank god for our web-developer!)


Here's what we are focusing on right now
- Keep up with our constant/stable growth
- Finishing website (3) while not dropping quality on website (1) and (2)
- Plan future expansions and create/improve relationships with direct advertisers.


A few words from Playmak3r

Sorry for the lack of updates on this journey! I'm not much of a writer and like to work in the dark. On average this projects costs me about 12-14 hours per day and it's consuming most of my time. I will try my best to keep the updates coming and answering your questions but i cant promise anything. I've added my Telegram and Discord username on my profile if anyone wants to reach me....Or remind me to update this thread :D

If you have questions i prefer if you ask them in the thread and i will do my best. But if you need a quick reply or notice that i'm not updating anymore. You are very welcome to ping me in Discord or Telegram.


Clarification: When i say "Stable 150k/users per day" its usually around 160-170k. I just mean that it could be christmas day and there is 0% chance that we go below 150k. It's pretty much just a milestone that i threw out there.

EDIT1: Remember that this is a journey thread and not a METHOD thread. Please stop asking me about my niches and how i get website traffic. I'm fine with asking most questions but not anything that could have a negative impact on my project.
Who are you unsing for your web domains, please advise me from your personal experience with them. Much appreciated.
 
Good luck i wish you all the best!

what are you stats now?
what for domain use you(.com or)?
and what is you main traffic source ?
 
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how much profit you made since starting this website ?
Not sure TBH since we have worked with different advertisers and ad networks.
Who are you unsing for your web domains, please advise me from your personal experience with them. Much appreciated.
LyraHosting <3
Good luck i wish you all the best!

what are you stats now?
what for domain use you(.com or)?
and what is you main traffic source ?
1) I just shared stats in my update
2) .com .tv .su
3) Organic (Google) is like 70% of my traffic.
 
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Minor Update
So i actually remember to update this thread! Here's what i've been doing

- Got a direct deal from Brazzers to allocate some ads to their site until December 4 (Black Friday Special!)
Running paysite PPS has never been my cup of tea but they are giving me $40 PPS for a "$2 Trial" offer which is worth testing. If it' turns out to be a good campaign it will put me in a position to negotiate better and monthly deals with flat payments. Brazzers network is huge and has lots of money i would gladly take :D

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Teached my new "worker" about our work-flow
He's going to manage our Community Discord with over 2000+ members aswell as doing uploads on 2 websites. For websites i teached him how to grab content and publish it with best SEO in mind. He is doing a great job and is put on a monthly payroll.

- Discussions with our web-developer
Just got words that we can launch our third website early next week! This is huge news. Also went through some minor design changes on current sites...While i'm at it let me give a shoutout to the best adult web developer @Adult-HTML RUSSELL IS MVP GIVE HIM A RAISE :D

-
Planned good SEO content
Every now and then i go through search console and Ahrefs aswell as my "in-house" statistics and this is what i did this time. Now i have a better understanding which upcoming content that has higher chance to perform better.

-
Regular grunt work.
While i have a few people doing the grunt work for me. I still like to stay involved and up to date. Regular grunt work is pretty much website administration, going through e-mails and work on content.

-
Signed better CDN deal
Our CDN costs are increasing so figured it would be worth a shot to flirt with their sales team and i managed to lower our costs from $0.05/GB to $0.03GB. this is huge news!
 
- Signed better CDN deal
Our CDN costs are increasing so figured it would be worth a shot to flirt with their sales team and i managed to lower our costs from $0.05/GB to $0.03GB. this is huge news!

Do you use LyraHost as CDN too?

Cheers
 
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Minor Update
So i actually remember to update this thread! Here's what i've been doing

- Got a direct deal from Brazzers to allocate some ads to their site until December 4 (Black Friday Special!)
Running paysite PPS has never been my cup of tea but they are giving me $40 PPS for a "$2 Trial" offer which is worth testing. If it' turns out to be a good campaign it will put me in a position to negotiate better and monthly deals with flat payments. Brazzers network is huge and has lots of money i would gladly take :D

-
Teached my new "worker" about our work-flow
He's going to manage our Community Discord with over 2000+ members aswell as doing uploads on 2 websites. For websites i teached him how to grab content and publish it with best SEO in mind. He is doing a great job and is put on a monthly payroll.

- Discussions with our web-developer
Just got words that we can launch our third website early next week! This is huge news. Also went through some minor design changes on current sites...While i'm at it let me give a shoutout to the best adult web developer @Adult-HTML RUSSELL IS MVP GIVE HIM A RAISE :D

-
Planned good SEO content
Every now and then i go through search console and Ahrefs aswell as my "in-house" statistics and this is what i did this time. Now i have a better understanding which upcoming content that has higher chance to perform better.

-
Regular grunt work.
While i have a few people doing the grunt work for me. I still like to stay involved and up to date. Regular grunt work is pretty much website administration, going through e-mails and work on content.

-
Signed better CDN deal
Our CDN costs are increasing so figured it would be worth a shot to flirt with their sales team and i managed to lower our costs from $0.05/GB to $0.03GB. this is huge news!
What method to use store your videos in KVS do you store videos on separate drive second SSD Drive or store theme on primary SSD Drive that run OS and Software's?
 

as always, great and very insightful thread. especially interesting for me since i’ve been thinking about starting a tube site for a long time and still haven’t pulled the trigger

one thing i’ve been wondering about for a while, and which you mentioned in one of your recent updates:

how do you (or tube site owners in general) deal with users trying to upload illegal or prohibited content?
  • do you allow user uploads at all, or are they limited?
  • if uploads are enabled, how do you stop illegal stuff from slipping through?
  • manual moderation, automated filters, or a mix of both?
  • with your level of traffic, you’d probably need a solid moderation setup, which isn’t cheap or fun to deal with

would be interesting to hear how you handle this in practice and what best practices you’d recommend.
 
Do you use LyraHost as CDN too?

Cheers
No i'm using BunnyCDN.

do you still use KVS?
Yes sir!
What method to use store your videos in KVS do you store videos on separate drive second SSD Drive or store theme on primary SSD Drive that run OS and Software's?
I have a storage/streaming server and Origin server.

as always, great and very insightful thread. especially interesting for me since i’ve been thinking about starting a tube site for a long time and still haven’t pulled the trigger

one thing i’ve been wondering about for a while, and which you mentioned in one of your recent updates:

how do you (or tube site owners in general) deal with users trying to upload illegal or prohibited content?
  • do you allow user uploads at all, or are they limited?
  • if uploads are enabled, how do you stop illegal stuff from slipping through?
  • manual moderation, automated filters, or a mix of both?
  • with your level of traffic, you’d probably need a solid moderation setup, which isn’t cheap or fun to deal with

would be interesting to hear how you handle this in practice and what best practices you’d recommend.
Thank you!

1- Yes i do but they need to be manually approved. I have a reviewer for that, i'd say we get 150-200 user uploads but like 20-30 get approved.
2- We review them manually.
3- Only manual.
4- Yup! it's pretty pricy!

Later today i will make a post and share my infrastructure.
 
Server Infrastructure

Now i'm gonna give you guys a full breakdown of my server infrastructure. This is for 3 websites. Questions? Feel free to ask!


Website "Alpha" - The Money maker!

Origin server / Backup Video Conversion
Intel Xeon [email protected] (32 Core)
32GB of RAM
640 GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth (It's pretty much 1 gbps)
KVM Virtualization
Full Root Access

Video Storage / Main Video Conversion
2x Intel Xeon E5-2630v3
64GB RAM
220GB SSD + 60TB HDD
3 Gbps / Unlimited

Total Costs: 869 Euro / month


Website "Beta" - The Grower

Origin server / Backup Video Conversion
Intel Xeon [email protected] (8 Core)
8GB of RAM
160GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
KVM Virtualization
Full Root Access

Video Storage / Main Video Conversion
CPU 3 vCore
4 GB RAM
2 TB PREMIUM SAS HDD
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
OpenVZ Virtualization
Full Root Access

Total Costs: 95 Euro / month

Website "Ceta" - The baby site

Origin server / Backup Video Conversion
Intel Xeon [email protected] (4 Core)
4GB of RAM
80GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
KVM Virtualization
Full Root Access

Video Storage / Main Video Conversion
CPU 2 vCore
2 GB RAM
1 TB PREMIUM SAS HDD
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
OpenVZ Virtualization
Full Root Access

Total Costs: 89 Euro / month

BunnyCDN (All videos are served through their CDN aswell)
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Monthly cost: 593-932 Euro
 
Server Infrastructure

Now i'm gonna give you guys a full breakdown of my server infrastructure. This is for 3 websites. Questions? Feel free to ask!


Website "Alpha" - The Money maker!

Origin server / Backup Video Conversion
Intel Xeon [email protected] (32 Core)
32GB of RAM
640 GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth (It's pretty much 1 gbps)
KVM Virtualization
Full Root Access

Video Storage / Main Video Conversion
2x Intel Xeon E5-2630v3
64GB RAM
220GB SSD + 60TB HDD
3 Gbps / Unlimited

Total Costs: 869 Euro / month


Website "Beta" - The Grower

Origin server / Backup Video Conversion
Intel Xeon [email protected] (8 Core)
8GB of RAM
160GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
KVM Virtualization
Full Root Access

Video Storage / Main Video Conversion
CPU 3 vCore
4 GB RAM
2 TB PREMIUM SAS HDD
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
OpenVZ Virtualization
Full Root Access

Total Costs: 95 Euro / month

Website "Ceta" - The baby site

Origin server / Backup Video Conversion
Intel Xeon [email protected] (4 Core)
4GB of RAM
80GB SSD (RAID 10)
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
KVM Virtualization
Full Root Access

Video Storage / Main Video Conversion
CPU 2 vCore
2 GB RAM
1 TB PREMIUM SAS HDD
1 IPv4
Unmetered Bandwidth
OpenVZ Virtualization
Full Root Access

Total Costs: 89 Euro / month

BunnyCDN (All videos are served through their CDN aswell)
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Monthly cost: 593-932 Euro
How much traffic do you get on your first website?
 
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