Vicetemple Review: Adult Web Services for Everyone
According to some estimates, people spend around $3,075.64 on online porn every second. That’s a lot of adult content. More importantly, it’s a huge amount of money that you’re missing out on by not having an adult website.
But while anyone can start a porn site, not everyone will do it well on their first try. An often overlooked step is the very first one: deciding on your hosting provider.
While most hosting companies may say that they don’t have anything against adult content, many will quietly shut your website down the moment someone from their abuse department sees a nipple. And when you ask, “what gives?” they’ll cite some vaguely-worded and deep-buried clause from their Terms of Service, probably written in the 16th century and giving them the right to remove content on moral grounds.
That is why today we’ll be taking a look at Vicetemple, one of the leading adult hosting providers on the Internet. Are they the right stepping stone to your fruitful career in the adult industry? Let’s find out.
Vicetemple’s Services
Vicetemple claims to be a one-stop solution for the whole adult industry. That means that whatever you need for your adult website, they can provide. However, they place special emphasis on their adult hosting plans, website themes, and adult scripts. Therefore, we will be focusing on those.
So, what makes adult web hosting special? It all comes down to three things that the hosting plan provider needs to ensure:
- They have to allow adult content and be open about what they support. If you have to read through hundreds of a provider’s ToS pages, chances are that they aren’t a great choice.
- They need to respect their clients’ freedom and artistic integrity and not take their content down due to complaints or copyright claims.
- They must prioritize the security and privacy of their clients, as well as their clients’ clients.
Vicetemple ticks all of those boxes. Their hosting plans come in three main quality groups: adult web hosting, adult VPS plans, and adult servers. Each is technically better than the last, but also more expensive. Unfortunately, the company doesn’t offer any free hosting trials, but they do have a 30-day return policy.
On the website theme front, they proudly present PornX, which will turn an otherwise regular WordPress site into a porn tube. We’ll soon check if there’s merit to their pride.
Finally, for those who want their porn site to have a familiar vibe, Vicetemple offers adult scripts. These look like established porn sites such as Pornhub, XVideos, etc. We’ll take a look at those, as well.
Adult Web Hosting
Adult web hosting may just be Vicetemple’s fancy name for shared hosting, but it will still get the job done. The cheapest one goes for $5 a month and will give you unlimited data, 10 subdomains, and 15 GB of storage. The most expensive one is $40 per month and also grants unlimited data, but gives you as many subdomains and addon domains as you want, while expanding your storage space to 180 gigabytes.
While these may not seem impressive, there’s nothing wrong with them, and they are very cheap for what they do. Even if we compare them to similar plans offered by Vicetemple’s competition, they come out as more accessible. For instance, AbeloHost’s most inexpensive hosting plan goes for €5.99 — almost a dollar more. M3Server, in turn, only has one equivalent option and it costs $20.
Therefore, while no one will make a career out of Vicetemple’s basic adult hosting plans, they’ll certainly be able to start one. Any of them is a great choice if you’re a new webmaster hoping to try your luck in the adult industry. And once your website starts growing, you can always upgrade to a better plan — such as an adult VPS.
Adult VPS
A virtual private server (VPS) is a cloud-based server that only you can access. It provides more reliability and security than standard hosting plans, and also performs better. As such, it provides more reliability and security than their standard hosting plans, and also performs better.
In practical terms, a VPS treads that fine line between accessibility and premium quality. Depending on how much you want to swing to either side, Vicetemple has several options. Their cheapest one goes for $15/month, while their top-of-the-line VPS is yours for $745/month, offering 64 times more ram, 12 times the processing power, and 64 times more storage space than the starting plan. All of them provide great value for their cost, though you may want to avoid the starting plan (Blessed Dwarf) due to its limited resources, unless your budget leaves you no breathing room.
If you plan on running a video streaming website and don’t want to have to upgrade your hosting as soon as the site starts gaining traction, an adult VPS is for you. Princess of Sin is a particularly great choice for starters, while more experienced webmasters may want to go with an even more advanced VPS. Those who need only the best that web hosting has to offer, however, will want an adult server.
Adult Servers
An adult server is simply the best possible choice for hosting any adult website. They offer unmatched security, storage space, processing power, and pretty much anything else that you can think of. Fittingly, these hosting plans are also the most expensive.
You can get an adult server from Vicetemple for anywhere between $110 and $520 per month. They may seem a bit steep, but once you get big enough to service millions of monthly visitors, you’ll want to keep them all as happy and safe as possible. One of these bad boys will make that happen, and Vicetemple keeps their adult servers top of the line.
Other than the lack of free trial for something so expensive, we have no complaints with Vicetemple’s servers. Price may not always be the best measure of quality, but in this case it appears to be.
The PornX Theme
The idea of starting a porn site often comes with the nightmare of hiring a coding team to make it. Even worse, a lot of potential adult webmasters try to learn coding and do it themselves. Well, Vicetemple has heard their collective cries of frustration, and came up with a solution.
Enter PornX; an elaborate and easy to use video streaming theme for WordPress. Getting it to work is as simple as buying it from Vicetemple and letting them set it up. They claim that the theme will give you a functional tube site in an hour or less. We tried it out, and they weren’t kidding on the “or less” part.
Functionality-wise, the theme was designed to appeal to both casual and experienced website owners. It is customizable, supports images, GIFs, and video files, comes with 9 starting visual demos, $200 worth of premium plugins, and more. For $99, it’s a steal.
According to Vicetemple, they have more adult themes in the making. Whatever they end up being, consider us interested.
Adult Scripts
Ultimately, we are all creatures of habit. If you’re a Pornhub regular, seeing that familiar color scheme will get you in the mood right away. The folks at Vicetemple know this, so they’ve put together a number of adult scripts. Any of them will give you your own version of an industry bigshot.
Vicetemple’s current list of adult scripts includes:
- HubX, which is based off Pornhub
- VideoX, giving you your own XVideos
- HamsterX, which mimics Xhamster
- RedX, evocative of Redtube
Each of them is essentially a pre-built adult website that you can make your own within little time. You can also customize your script, and Vicetemple’s support team is always there to help you do that.
You can rent a script for $79 a month, or you can buy it in full for a one-time fee of $799. Whatever you choose to go for, installation and setup are free.
The Verdict: Loads of Great Choices
If we seem impressed, that’s because we are. We give Vicetemple A’s across the board, with minuses for their lack of free trial options and a nonexistent voice call function in their support sections. As we mentioned above, though, you can always get your money back within 45 days if you’re not pleased with their service.
We doubt that is going to happen, however. With their combination of affordable pricing, high security, frequent backups, unlimited traffic, and top-tier customer support, Vicetemple may just be the best adult web hosting provider out there. As a cherry on top, they also offer additional services that any adult webmaster — new or experienced — will find useful.
With Vicetemple on your side, claiming your spot in the adult industry will be easier and safer than ever.
