LOS ANGELES — Monday was a landmark day in the history of PineappleSupport.com thanks to a huge promotional push by PornHub.com and a monumental effort by the staff at MojoHost.
According to the performer-support charity, it saw a 21,000 percent increase in traffic on Monday over the previous day, thanks to Pornhub adding a clickable banner icon to its front-page logo in honor of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
As one might expect, the sudden influx of so much traffic caused a temporary outage of the PineappleSupport.com website — a problem that made the site inoperable and unreachable by some who might need access to the therapeutic services offered by the organization, free of charge to anyone in the adult entertainment community who may be in need.
“It’s rare for a site to have a 21,000 percent traffic increase without any notice,” MojoHost CEO Brad Mitchell says. “We weren’t aware of the promotion ahead of time, but we understand the particular importance of Pineapple Support being up because of the life-saving services it provides.”
“Getting the site back up as quickly as we did is a credit to everyone working here 24/7 on our technical staff,” Mitchell adds, “and we are honored to be the trusted host of Pineapple and everyone they work with throughout the year.”
For her part, Pineapple Support CEO Leya Tannit was thankful for the attention that Pornhub provided and the infrastructure that MojoHost has in place.
“As a charity, we are much more about helping people than about marketing or web hosting maintenance, so working with people who are at the top of those fields is truly gratifying,” Tannit says. “The visibility Pornhub provided today may actually save lives, simply by helping so many people to find Pineapple Support when they need us.”
“Similarly,” Tannit explains, “the reliability of MojoHost and their ability to solve any technical challenges so quickly empowers our own brand by showing people they can rely on our site whenever they need it.”
Coming on the heels of a recent announcement to sponsor holiday dinners in several locations for adult workers, Pornhub is demonstrating its desire to make sure that the adult business is one that is also a healthy, safe and positive environment for all the people who make it such a joyous source of entertainment around the globe.
“We are thrilled with the overwhelmingly positive response we have received to the announcement of our partnership with Pineapple Support,” Natalia Maurlan of Modelhub says. “With so many positive comments from sex workers, as a result, we hope that others will consider supporting our community in impactful ways as well.”
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