Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Back in '99 - originally our first site was free (with free hosting from GoCasino) - but our images were already well-known before we launched (our stuff was seeded all over Usenet newsgroups)...so traffic went crazy right from the start and we exceeded the 2gB/day bandwidth limitation of the hosting within the first week.

We also had high-profile guest galleries on Red's Realm, EveEllis...and a bunch of other larger bdsm/fetish sites at the time.

So we switched to paid hosting and converted the site to a paysite. If memory serves, our first sale came through overnight while we slept. Within a week or two the sales were constant and we couldn't believe the signups pouring in.

Those were the days (sigh)...