Adult rated UNIX?! Yep, long time now. Crazy isn’t it?
January 19th, 2008 AbrahamSo raise your hands if you’ve never visited an adult site……exactly. We all know and (I guess love?) porn sites from time to time. What really amazes me is the fact that a large bulk of some of the biggest adult sites out there on the web are hosted on systems using completely free software. This is about the point where I give the Apache foundation some credit, because statistics show that most of these sites are being powered by their webserver software. How about MySQL? Yep, them too.
Let’s put this in perspective for a moment. Most of the time when something is free, that old saying “you get what you pay for” really does apply. The reason? The craftsmanship and love and devotion isn’t neccessarily always put into that product you’re receiving for free. Let’s take a toy car for example that “Some Company” gives away to kids for free. A week later, that toy breaks. Ok maybe that’s a bad analogy but maybe not. It made sense in my head when I was thinking about this all. Anyway, Apache is provided free to the public. Yet a week later, it won’t break. OK?! 
Apache is one of the most beautiful pieces of free webserving software on the market today, if not the webserving market in general in my opinion. I’ve had the opportunity to speak with some of the larger adult sites out there’s owners and asked them what they were running and how performance was in general on their servers. Another site running the apache software for it’s adult environment is XXX Porn, and they love it. The first site owner I spoke to was Louie from Louie’s Free Porn (link: Louie’s Free Porn). He’s a nice enough guy, really down to earth. He just runs a site as a hobby to share free porn with the rest of the internet world. I asked him what he was running on his systems, how it all came to be and how overall performance was. His answers below:
UNIX-Fu: What software does Louie’s Free Porn run on?
Louie: Apache and MySQL really and that’s about it. The fact that our host created a cluster out of our site so it would run even faster was pretty cool too. I don’t know a lot about technical stuff, I work construction as my day job but I do know about porn and where to find it free LOL! If you want finer details I can ask my hosting company for it, but they told me it was just Apache and MySQL for the database stuff.
UNIX-Fu: How did Louie’s Free Porn even come to be?
Louie: To be honest really, I was a bit of a site surfer for a long time when I’d come home late at night after my job over here in NYC working construction, building demolition, reconstruction and repairs, etc. One day I got tired of all the sites I was visiting with their damned popup windows, links that went to different places under the disguise of free porn, and just a bunch of ripoff sites. I decided to create a site of my own where other people like me could get porn for free and not have to worry about all of that stuff. So today there’s “Louie’s Free Porn” and that’s exactly what it all is, free. Sometimes I’ll post tips for other people to get it for a buck or how to avoid having their credit cards billed and stuff over and over and hopefully it helps a lot of people.
UNIX-Fu: So how many hits do you get every day roughly? How do the servers hold up?
Louie: Well we get about a million or so hits a day. It all really depends on the day some days more than others. I’m just happy to see it grow and people enjoying the stuff I find out there through all of the guises of free porn when it’s really not. I make sure my friends visiting my site don’t have to worry about all of that. The servers hold up great thanks to my host. These guys are great and really are probably one of the best web hosts I have had in a really long time. Basically thanks to them and Apache, the site’s usually smooth as butter. Never have to worry about downtime and stuff like that.
UNIX-Fu: What are your future plans for Louie’s Free Porn?
Louie: I just created a “porn tube” type of site where I upload movies for everyone else to watch so that’s probably the latest in news for me. It’s a pretty cool site, I enjoy watching the movies myself LOL so I hope others enjoy ‘em too. You can check out it out Louie’s Tube.
UNIX-Fu: Wow, that must really beat up the servers with all of those hits and bandwidth and all huh?
Louie: Well like I said it’s really smooth. The servers are up all of the time thanks to my host and Apache and I never have really had any issues with ‘em.
UNIX-Fu: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, it’s great to hear back from the community that’s actually utilizing the free software out there on websites that actually test the abilities of the software and push its envelope. I think that about concludes our interview. Are there any other sites out there you’d like to plug? We’d be more than happy to let you since you were so kind to take the time out of your day to interview with us.
Louie: Nah it was my pleasure, but sure. A friend of mine just created her own site and it’s pretty wild. If you’re into lesbian porn and such you’ll like it. A lot of really pretty girls on there. Her site is Lesbian Porn Movies and she updates every day. Great stuff. Thanks for the plug!
UNIX-Fu: Anytime Louie, thanks for your time!
Louie: You got it, take it easy!
So there you have it. A “real world” example of the free software the wonderful people over at Apache have created being used. We’ll be interviewing other site owners in the future as we can find ‘em. I might make this a project to track the stability of the software over a period of time to see how well things hold up. You can never be too precise! I’m out of here for now, take it easy folks! If you’d like to see more interviews, rate this post as high as you can. The more votes, the more liklihood of more interviews in the future.
-Abraham