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Phoenix Forum Tech Panel Tackles VR, 4K Digital Media Challenges

As the adult industry capitalizes on skyrocketing demand for VR, 4K and livestreamed content, data-intensive distribution will increasingly rely on unique hosting solutions, as well as a multi-faceted approach to website optimization.

Red Apple Media Honors Assylum.com’s First Anniversary

Premier website hosting, development and video streaming company Red Apple Media, is congratulating Assylum.com, and its affiliate program, DerangedDollars.com, for a successful first year of business.

opinion

Hosting Talk: Scaling Back Intelligently

While some Internet-based adult companies continue to thrive, it’s no secret that the last six or seven years have seen the downsize of many adult companies and their affiliate programs with extensive (yet necessary) cost cutting. Staying competitive and comfortably afloat in this industry requires strategic decision-making, which often results in staff and budget cuts.

Steven Daris ·
opinion

The Buzz Behind Cloud Hosting

The cloud. It’s everywhere (kind of literally, actually) and everyone’s talking about it. But what the hell is it? The cloud is used to market so many different services and technologies that it’s hard to know what you’re being sold, and unless you know the inside details, chances are you’re just hearing another buzz word.

Steven Daris ·
opinion

How Studying a Site’s Traffic Will Help It Grow

If you’ve been running a website for any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with the need to study your stats — either using a server log solution such as AWStats, a hosted third-party service such as Google Analytics, or a self-hosted, open source tool such as PiWik — or even all of the above...

Stephen Yagielowicz ·
opinion

Hosting Talk: Data-Driven Decision-Making

From the earliest days of the Internet’s rise as a commercial marketplace, there has been a steady improvement in the technology available to monitor and analyze our sites’ traffic patterns. While speculation was once our main tool, webmasters now are able to determine with great specificity where their traffic comes from, both in terms of the geographic locations of their end-users and with respect to the referring URLs, search terms and social media mentions that drive new visitors.

Steven Daris ·

Red Apple in Deal With Mansion to Offer MPA3, MAS

Red Apple Media today said that it has struck a strategic alliance with software developer Mansion Productions to implement its state-of-the-art CMS and affiliate management software into any existing adult website.

opinion

Hosting Talk: Site Security, Content Protection

Online adult business owners and webmasters face an array of challenges in the current market, everything from competition to piracy, but most recently the Web experienced a world-wide shock with the Heartbleed Bug.

Steven Daris ·

Red Apple Media Offering Custom Development for On-Demand Viewing

Red Apple Media has announced that it now offers custom website and video streaming development to adult sites seeking exposure from the growing popularity of on-demand porn viewing.

Echoes of Heartbleed: A New OpenSSL Exploit

With adult webmasters still reeling from unexpected vulnerabilities in OpenSSL, a new threat has emerged, adding to the concerns over Internet safety.

opinion

Hosting Talk: Scaling Back Without Compromising Quality

Budget-trimming has become a part of every business (adult and otherwise) in recent years, an inevitable reaction to sluggish sales that inspires business owners to cut spending, reduce costs and downscale their operations to lessen the financial impact of declining revenues. This process can be painful, as this belt-tightening often is aimed at the heart of the company: its staff.

Steven Daris ·

Red Apple Media Revamps ChaosMen.com With New Offerings

Red Apple Media has announced the revamp of gay website ChaosMen.com.

Red Apple Media Says Clients Safe From ‘Heartbleed’ Hack

Red Apple Media has issued a notice to its clients that its network has not been breached by the “Heartbleed” OpenSSL vulnerability.

opinion

Hosting Talk: When ‘Progressive’ Isn’t Quite Enough

While the adult entertainment industry has long enjoyed a reputation for being “tech-forward,” it’s surprising to see so many top adult content sites relying on progressive download, a video delivery method long denounced by the likes of YouTube and Netflix.

Steven Daris ·
opinion

New Solutions for Mobile Video Delivery

With more mobile users hitting websites every day, it is increasingly important for site operators to deploy cross-platform video delivery systems. In 2014, one might think this would be a straight-forward and foolproof task, but some nagging challenges remain.

Stephen Yagielowicz ·

Red Apple Media Debuts ‘Pirate ID’ Tracking, Protection Service

Red Apple Media has debuted Pirate ID, a new service that reports to aid studios in the fight against online piracy.

opinion

Hosting Talk: Loopholes or Lifelines?

It’s not uncommon to hear many within the online adult entertainment industry adopt less-than-positive opinions regarding Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA).

Steven Daris ·

Red Apple Media Announces ‘Media Vault’ Upgrade

Red Apple Media announced that has completed an upgrade to its Media Vault storage system.

Red Apple Media Upgrades to 10Gbps Switches

Red Apple Media has announced its completion of a comprehensive server upgrade with 10Gbps switches for optimal speed and load balancing.

Red Apple Media Providing 'True Streaming' Demo

Red Apple Media has released a new demo video for its Media Commander product that shows content providers how they could offer members a “Netflix experience” using adaptive bit rate streaming, aka true streaming.