The silver lining in all of this is that I can take this experience and pass that lesson along to any new models looking into signing agreements with webmasters: OWN YOUR NAME. In all its shapes, variations, and forms. Otherwise, someone else will end up owning you.

The hackers themselves will tell you that if you limit yourself (and anyone else on your server) to difficult passwords and better-secured billing scripts, they will have a difficult time indeed. They may even go broke because they can no longer charge their members for the chance to steal your bandwidth.

People can hack, steal, and then sell your passwords – why do that to yourself? That’s hundreds and thousands of potential dollars that you are losing.

I hope that’s some extra information that you can use to make a better, more informed decision when it comes to picking who to use as your payment processor.

So how do you bring in the money? How do you process passwords, credit cards, and all of the other good stuff – good for you financially, and good for the member in that they can finally see what’s beyond the flashy curtain and teaser clips.

Regardless of who you use to design your site, or if you decide to design it yourself, there are a few elements of an adult paysite that are pretty standard.

Like buying a house at an address, you need to do some interior decorating-with content. It’s not going to do any good to have a site with nothing there, right?

It doesn’t matter if you have the greatest domain name in the history of the world (and don’t worry — everyone else on the planet thinks they have the greatest domain name in the history of the world as well), if you don’t have it hosted somewhere it isn’t going to make a lick of difference.

If you have the cajones to be constantly criticized, and have the time and money to invest in this, then you might have what it takes to be a successful adult paysite webmaster.

A common misconception about Tube sites are that they are like Torrent sites – that is, that they are a gateway for stolen adult content and piracy. In actuality, it’s a great way to advertise content that you have on your site for free, as often as you’d like, to drive traffic to your sites.