I went to a HN meetup many years ago and one of the engineers from Mindgeek was presenting. It was one of the better attended events (standing room only) and he was quite candid about the technology they were using. Cloud was still nascent and with TB databases and PB of videos AWS wasn't an option a serious option.
It's porn, it's not exactly illegal but from what I understand they were very careful about managing transactions. Always moving card processors, and they had to tell users the transaction was coming from different names simply because buyers didn't want Pornhub.com showing up on the credit statement.
It's porn, it's not exactly illegal but from what I understand they were very careful about managing transactions. Always moving card processors, and they had to tell users the transaction was coming from different names simply because buyers didn't want Pornhub.com showing up on the credit statement.