I don't think he is ELevatedX, AJ runs it with her programmer partner I beleive and I met him and don't think his name was Ryan. In face he didn't seem like tjhe social type at all and AJ has ALWAYS been the face of Elevated X.

His sig says Porn CMS so I assume that's his. And when you go to porncms.com there are quotes there from FantasyOne and some other old school sites so likely that is his CMS.

$250,000 in this day and age isn't easy but VERY doable. Most higher end paysites make that a month and then some. So a guy running CMS for pay sites is possible.

I used to be a member years ago, long before I discovered GG's board. It went down hill a lot so I did not visit for a long time. When I eventually went back I could not remember my password, and it was so damned complicated to register for that one that I decided "Fuck it, there are better boards about, I don't need this hassle."

Ahh that makes sense, it didn't seem possible he was elevated x, I just dropped the phrase I took from pc's post into google and looked at the first few results, and took a guess based on that.

Sure, if you wnat to be making money these days, providing services to the high end is definitely the way to go.

What with stratification and centralization of traffic and money and all.

In the end, I think the thread wasn't bad. It showed that people still do freesites and brought a lot of our generation of webmasters out of the shadows for a few minutes.