Web hosting

[Totzman]

Can anyone recommend a good place online for an author to host stories? It would need to be a place that allows adult content.

I just need a place I can personally run to host my stories, post pictures, and reach an audience.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Blogspot is one that allows adult content if you declare it adult content. But it's just a blog.

Otherwise buy a domain and find an isp - Godaddy doesn't seem to mind my stuff being on there servers.

 

[RejectReality]

Godaddy paid hosting allows it. I asked the question specifically to them.

Don't know if I can actually recommend them, but they do allow it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Godaddy paid hosting allows it. I asked the question specifically to them.

Don't know if I can actually recommend them, but they do allow it.

They're actually fairly cheap considering the breaks you can get in the first year. $1 mo. hosting fee, free domain hosting the first year. Together, after the first year, I only pay $100 a year for the domain hosting and unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space web hosting with unlimited subdomains.

And their fast too. They are the quickest of all the sites I go to.

 

[PervOtaku]

ASSTR is unique among erotica sites in that they just give you web space and let you upload whatever, with any structure, design scheme, or organization method you please. The trade off is there's no infrastructure for the usual things that people expect from erotica sites like category listings, a decent search engine for story tags, commenting or voting on stories.

Tumblr also works if you're okay with working within the blog-style setup, you can tag your account as having adult content and then post pretty much whatever, text and pictures both.

Reaching an audience is the real trick, for that I think Literotica and similar sites are really the best bet. The infrastructure helps people find the good stories with the subject matter they want, and Literotica specifically IIRC has the highest traffic rating that I've seen among the various alternatives.

 

[sr71plt]

Reaching an audience is the real trick, for that I think Literotica and similar sites are really the best bet. The infrastructure helps people find the good stories with the subject matter they want, and Literotica specifically IIRC has the highest traffic rating that I've seen among the various alternatives.

I think this is the kicker. You need to be realistic in balancing the effort and expense you will have to go to against how you're going to get anyone to click on it and read it. Web sites like Lit. have already largely taken care of the crucial second part of that for you--and also minimize the first part.