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Overview
I am getting an early start on my Spring cleaning. I am selling this website because... frankly... it is conflicting with my other web hosting business. This is an established website that gets 4,000 hits each month with little promotion. (see stats below)

What is this site?
This site offers free web hosting which includes their own cPanel account and MySQL, PHP, POP, etc, support. Clients are able to signup using a subdomain of this site, or with their own domain name (if you allow this in the admin panel)

The site uses iPanel account creation software ($50 value) which offers many cool features that will help you run this business. You can offer both free and / or paid hosting with this software.

The Domains
Gethosted.info which was established Nov. 2005
Gethosted.org which was established Aug. 2006

Both domains are PR3 and the .INFO domain has an Alexa traffic rank of: 171,383
This sale includes more than 500 accounts using subdomains of the above TLDs or using their own domain. There are also 2 paid accounts included. (would be more... but I am busy promoting other hosts)

Click here to view the site

Stats

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Listings
These sites are listed in numerous places for free hosting and does attract a bit of Asian traffic. And although Asian traffic does have a bad “rap”... I find they are no different than any of the English users we have. The .ORG domain... on the other hand... was added to this network to build up a more “English” flow of traffic (for the benefit of the advertisers) and receives almost 90% of its hits from US traffic.

Hosting/Domain transfer
We currently host this site on one of our own cPanel servers and require that it be moved as soon as possible. It will be best to host this setup on a server or VPS that you have root access to... in order to setup mod_layout which is required to use the forced banner option.

Other Requirements include:
» Cpanel / WHM, DirectAdmin, Plesk
» PHP 4.4.x or PHP 5.x
» MySQL 4.x or MySQL 5.x
» Curl+SSL » Ioncube loader (included in the script)
» OPENSSL​

Potential
This is the perfect opportunity for someone wanting to jump right into the free web hosting business. Everything is in place and ready to go.

Revenue
It has been a while since we have been able to report any income from this network due to other circumstances. We previously upgraded to iPanel's version 3 a while ago for the benefit of our other free host we run on the same server... and we also have upgraded our server software a few months ago... which has caused a problem with getting mod_layout to work with this site. Seems there is a conflict with another module we are using (suphp) which is confirmed here:
http://lists.tangent.org/pipermail/mod_layout/2007-February/002240.html

Finally
The length of this auction and whether or not my minimum price has been met will be decided after the first few bids are placed.

Good luck with your bidding!

 

Whats the bin

 

BIN is undecided right now... would like to see some reasonable bids first.

I also have learned new info in regards to the iPanel license transfer. They will charge $10 to transfer this license, but you will get access to their latest release... which offers improved features and includes a "post to host" option too.

 

what's your starting bid??

 

Well... seeing I really would like to clear this from our server... We will most likely let it go for a bargain price. I do need to clear any final sale price with a partner.

So... to get things rolling...

Do I hear $100 ?

 

to get ball rolling $20

 

50 dollars here

when does it end?

 

UPDATE:
This auction will run until midnight EST, Mar. 11.

BIN: $399 USD

 

Could you give me a list of the sites hosted there, and how many pages are indexted in google, and how many accounts are actually active?

 

It seems about 25% of the accounts use any bandwidth. There was 19.5 GB total used by the members last month and 16.2 GB used this month.

You can see all members sites at this page:
members.gethosted.info/test.php

There will be some you will find showing the default index page. Most of those are most likely abandoned accounts and should probably be deleted... but some may have a forum or something running in a subfolder which you will not easily see... and sometimes cPanel is weird and reports 0 KBs used... when there are definitely files in their account... and the member still want... which makes it difficult without spending some time going thru each account. There are also a few suspended sites.

Indexed pages in google:

for gethosted.info: 11,300
google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Agethosted.info&btnG=Google+Search

for gethosted.org: 45
google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Agethosted.org&btnG=Search

 

You have adsense for search running on pages that have no content. Is that pulling anything in for you?

 

The 404 pages ? I had forgotten about those searches there

Those are earning about $1 each month just for the searches from this custom search setup... and appears to be about the same from the banners on those same pages... which is now perfectly legal according to Adsense's latest change with their TOS.

 

REDUCED:

BIN: Now only $300

 

High bid is currently at $110 USD posted on another forum:

webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=676266

 

where is this hosted? how much do you spend for your reseller hosting plan per month?

 

We host it on our own dedicated server. I estimate this setup uses about a fifth of what we have running on a dedicated Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz with 2048 KB ram.