Blog hosters that allow adult content?

[Stella_Omega]

Well here the site would be responsible I suppose.

The host is responsible for the content of its servers, yes.

But I have become increasingly paranoid with what I do on the net that can be tied directly to me especially under this "regime"

I collect knives and assorted medieval weapons and will no longer buy anything on line even through e-bay. I also collect books on witchcraft and the occult and as great as a source the net is I no longer buy them directly, if I can;t drive there to get it, it can stay there.

I don't need the FBI profiling me.

Romantic hand-to-hand weapons and woo-woo books, big deal. Unless you're buying fertilizer and ammonia in huge quantities, or maybe enriched uranium-- I can promise you the FBI doesn't give a fuck They think your interests are benign and kind of sweet.

 

[sr71plt]

The FBI guys are bidding against you on the medieval weapons.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Easiest thing to do is buy a domain name for $10 and get a cheap hosting package and set up your own website so you post what you like (beware obscenity laws though).

I use these guys http://certifiedhosting.com/unlimited-web-hosting/ you can get a site up for as little as $3.95/month and you can install wordpress from the control panel.

Sure it costs you a little but your not being hamstrung by anyone else's rules. You're making your own.

Hell, Hostgator is having a sale $0.01 a month hosting.

I got mine at Godaddy for a $1.00 month and the domain was free.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well here the site would be responsible I suppose.

But I have become increasingly paranoid with what I do on the net that can be tied directly to me especially under this "regime"

I collect knives and assorted medieval weapons and will no longer buy anything on line even through e-bay. I also collect books on witchcraft and the occult and as great as a source the net is I no longer buy them directly, if I can;t drive there to get it, it can stay there.

I don't need the FBI profiling me.

Haven't you read the news? The NSA has hooks in both Yahoo and Google. Big Brother is watching you.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The FBI guys are bidding against you on the medieval weapons.

*nods*

hella lot of LARPers in that group, I bet.

Hell, Hostgator is having a sale $0.01 a month hosting.

I got mine at Godaddy for a $1.00 month and the domain was free.

Ooh, good to know, thanks Zeb.

 

[horrorotica]

Hell, Hostgator is having a sale $0.01 a month hosting.

I got mine at Godaddy for a $1.00 month and the domain was free.

Good luck to you. But this is not a competition. My host is not expensive in anyone's book and they're reliable as all hell. But I was only offering a suggestion and anyone is free to follow their own path. I couldn't care less who they choose.

 

[ishtat]

Obscenity law pertaining to Writing ??

The UK has the Obscene Publications Act 1959 (amended) 1964 which prohibits the publication, (not the original writing) of material "likely to deprave" particular groups. It is generally perceived to protect children in particular from for example, the depiction of necrophylia, bestiality, rape, possibly incest, but the Act is vague leaving it up to the courts to determine whether particular material depraves in particular circumstances.

The Internet Watch Foundation has a pretty good summary of the Act, and if one reads it carefully it can be seen that obtaining a prosecution, let alone a conviction, would be very difficult.

 

[FlyAwayFromHere]

thanks ishtat thats really informative.

if anyone goes with hostgator or godaddy then be careful... i had a business and when i was looking up hosters they were the worst... they had like 50% negative feedback. Cheap but unreliable. I ended up going with a really good one but i cant remember what they were called!!

things you should get as standard:

24/7 live assistance
website builder
additional programs (like for a shopping cart).

if they dont have 24/7 live assistance, dont get it!

 

[horrorotica]

It's funny how my tongue in cheek remark about obscenity laws set off a whole thing.

Yeah I've heard bad things about those hosts too but you never know for sure. My host is excellent, best I've ever used.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Good luck to you. But this is not a competition. My host is not expensive in anyone's book and they're reliable as all hell. But I was only offering a suggestion and anyone is free to follow their own path. I couldn't care less who they choose.

Who said it was?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

thanks ishtat thats really informative.

if anyone goes with hostgator or godaddy then be careful... i had a business and when i was looking up hosters they were the worst... they had like 50% negative feedback. Cheap but unreliable. I ended up going with a really good one but i cant remember what they were called!!

things you should get as standard:

24/7 live assistance
website builder
additional programs (like for a shopping cart).

if they dont have 24/7 live assistance, dont get it!

Funny, I have found GoDaddy very reliable. HostGator too. In fact Godaddy bent over backwards to help me get my domains straightened out. Each time I added a domain or a web hosting, their support staff called me to see if there was anything they could do to help.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Every hosting service gets more bad reviews than good ones, because people mostly don't bother to review unless they're pissed off.

 

[horrorotica]

Every hosting service gets more bad reviews than good ones, because people mostly don't bother to review unless they're pissed off.

That's why you take notice if a host has lots of bad reviews like Hostgator etc. At the end of the day you shop around and see what plan suits you best. The cheapest is rarely ever the best in anything. We're all strangers to each other here so any recommendation should be viewed cautiously because who's to say just because I find my host service great means someone else wont have a bad experience with them? Shit happens. So shop around there's plenty of host services that don't cost a fortune to have and find one you feel comfortable with.

 

[StrangeLife]

Funny, I have found GoDaddy very reliable. HostGator too. In fact Godaddy bent over backwards to help me get my domains straightened out. Each time I added a domain or a web hosting, their support staff called me to see if there was anything they could do to help.

GoDaddy was one of the most adamant SOPA supporters and as such forever on my black list. I don't care if they bend themselves into pretzels - once they joined the dark side they disappeared off my radar.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

GoDaddy was one of the most adamant SOPA supporters and as such forever on my black list. I don't care if they bend themselves into pretzels - once they joined the dark side they disappeared off my radar.

So your radar is clear and the room in which you live is empty. Good for you.

So I won't see you complaining when one of your stories is ripped off Lit and posted somewhere else under an different author name? Sure I won't.

And while I disagreed with SOPA, there was a inkling of an idea there. Tighten up copyright enforcement. But not by kludging up the internet with a bunch of code and link denials, etc., etc.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Blogger, Dreamwidth, wordpress blogspot-- all of them allow erotic content, even porn up to a point.

tumblr allows graphic porn images but sucks as a writing vehicle.

Blogger, blogspot- same thing. Owned by Google and seemingly laxed. My main blog, the one that should be in my sig has a few porn related post and my story Zerophilia. Which iirc is about a middle schooler, idea from the movie. This is the same google that doesnt like bumfights and similar on youtube, their other affiliate.

 

[StrangeLife]

So your radar is clear and the room in which you live is empty. Good for you.

So I won't see you complaining when one of your stories is ripped off Lit and posted somewhere else under an different author name? Sure I won't.

And while I disagreed with SOPA, there was a inkling of an idea there. Tighten up copyright enforcement. But not by kludging up the internet with a bunch of code and link denials, etc., etc.

Don't be fooled Zeb. The "idea" behind SOPA had little to do with protecting our stories and a whole lot to do with control. As one of the worlds biggest registrars GoDaddy saw an opportunity to clamp down on their market and sided with the dark forces for financial gain. It's a dead horse no longer worth beating, but that doesn't mean I'm ready to do business with them again. They only backed down because of the potential loss in revenue due to the massive boycott - not because they changed their policy. They're still badguys.



Back to the topic - I was going to recommend Square Space which is a pay solution, but also really good - especially if you plan on selling stuff online. However oddly enough they seem to have an anti-porn policy...

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I don't think its an "obscenity law" issue (I'd like to see examples of such laws). It's a invitation for scrutiny of your life for possible illegal activity that goes far beyond writing (use of images, yes. But that's different from writing) and public revealing of your sexual preferences/activities that you might not like to have shared with the world.

So, interested in seeing what these obscenity laws about what you write and manage to get someone to publish are.

Every state in the Union has obscenity laws, often quite disparate, and the Supreme Court has often had to adjudicate under the First Amendment. I did my research before signing up.

The Comstock Act still holds sway, I think, where publication or distribution of obscene material - written as well as pictorial - is illegal. Erotica is not a judicial term. The core issue that has never been explored by the courts is a definition of obscenity .

The dictionary says that obscene is 'repugnant to morality' or 'encouraging prurient interest'.

 

[sr71plt]

Your usual bullshit, Elfin. Pornographic material is being freely written, published, and distributed all over the United States and the Western world. Ever hear of Amazon.com? Or Barnes and Noble?

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'll take "statements easily disproven by five seconds of Googling", Alex...

Every state in the Union has obscenity laws, often quite disparate,

Not Oregon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_v._Henry

The core issue that has never been explored by the courts is a definition of obscenity .

Not true. The definition of "obscenity" is necessarily subjective, and has changed over the years, but SCOTUS certainly has looked at this exact question in at least three cases: Roth v. United States, Memoirs v. Massachusetts, and Miller v. California.

Under the "Miller test", a work is considered obscene if all three of these conditions are met:

whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards (not national standards, as some prior tests required), would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions[14] specifically defined by applicable state law; and
whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California

 

[lovecraft68]

The host is responsible for the content of its servers, yes. Romantic hand-to-hand weapons and woo-woo books, big deal. Unless you're buying fertilizer and ammonia in huge quantities, or maybe enriched uranium-- I can promise you the FBI doesn't give a fuck They think your interests are benign and kind of sweet.

Awesome! I'm now going to order that iron maiden I've been eying for the last couple of years and stock up on copies of mein kampf!

 

[sr71plt]

Elfin's research never goes beyond her personal opinion, which is usually dictated here by what the opposite is of whatever I've posted.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Your usual bullshit, Elfin. Pornographic material is being freely written, published, and distributed all over the United States and the Western world. Ever hear of Amazon.com? Or Barnes and Noble?

For someone who claims to be a wordsmith you have a pretty poor understanding of the English language. Erotica and pornography are ill- or non-defined terms.

Obscenity is illegal throughout the US for all mediums of publishing, including written, but there is little agreement on where the line is drawn. In California the porn industry was prosecuted for prostitution. It's still there.

Give a reasonable definition of obscene - which caused the banning of Tropic of Cancer, and your opinion may be worth something.

Over to you.

 

[sr71plt]

Naw, trying to discuss anything with you really gets bizarre, as you are off in lala land. I'm busy actually writing it--can you remember the last time you posted any of it here, Elfin? I've give you a clue: a good bit longer than six years.

 

[lovecraft68]

\ I'm busy actually posting about writing it\

Fixed your post.