Hosting business 4 sale - $xxx/mo | xxxx uniques/daily | PR5 established domain

Hello DP website crazies,

I am putting my hosting business up for sale to anyone who is interested in such an undertaking. Because I still enjoy running the business very much (and websitesin general), I would also consider a 50% partnership with somebody with the correct qualifications to run such a website business. Reason for this sale is my commitments to my PhD study which I plan to finish early next year and so have very little time and energy to work on my hosting business. I would also consider exchanging the whole site/business for another site of equal worth!! - make me a proposal!

You have 3 options:

1) Complete purchase:
Buy the website/business at BIN price (or highest BID) and get full ownership of the site/customers/hosting accounts/domain names/sales...everything!
(I will help you with the transfer of ownership for 30 days after the date of sale so you will have all the answers amd assistance you require)

2) 50% purchase - so 50% ownership:
Purchase 50% of the business by paying 50% of the BIN price. You will have full rights to the site and every account associated with it. You will also have full control in determining what happens to the site and what can be done in the areas of marketing/promotion/direction...etc. This will be in overlay with me of course, but I also want what is best for the site so we will work together to make it grow. Of course I will be very busy so you will have a lot of freedom to do what you like, experimenting with promotion deals, advertising opportunities etc. You will also receive 50% of the sites profit of course!

3) Website exchange - Your website in exchange for mine!
Requirements: Site must be of similar worth, have at least $200/month income from adsense
Traffic: averaging at least 1000 uniques per day.
PR: preferably 5 or higher
Earnings: at least 200 dollars per month from adsense (preferably) but will consider other income sources. The site needs to have at least 6 months of steady income for me to consider it!
Workload: Minimum workload, so max 30 minutes per day and I want to be able to go on holidays without having to worry about maintaining the site for a few weeks.
Type of site: Preferably a nice niche with interesting content (sports, Internet related, hobby site...etc). Forums also considered (preferably VB) but workload needs to stay low for owner.

Site details:
Domain: Please PM me for the domain. Please do not post it in this thread. I will happily PM it to you.
Domain extensions: main domain is .com but also registered .net/.org/.eu so you have the market in domain name extensions.
Website age: 13 months
Google PR: 5 (PR5 already for the past 3-4 updates - so very stable! I expect 6 soon as back links are steadily climbing)
Website members: 3788
Forum members: 4004
Active hosting accounts (cpanels): 421
Active hosted websites (including addon domains): >1000 as all accounts are allowed up to 10 addon domains.
Active Domains registered: 139 (these are all/most being renewed by clients every 12 months)
Software: AWBS hosting/domain registration - unlimited license purchased (value: $168)
Traffic: anywhere between 300-2000 uniques daily - best month to date was about 27,000 uniques from memory. Best day was about 2300 uniques.
Forum posts: 965
Forum PR: 3
Total website pages: estimated around 5,000 with many content pages including cpanel tutorials which attract a lot of the traffic from SE.
Site Support: the site has a very nice helpdesk, contact form, support forum and even live online chat system!

Domains:
We have 2 registrars from which we resell domain names.
1) Directi - over $1000 dollars worth of domain sales
2) Enom - over $300 dollars worth of sales
Domains are registered automatically through the AWBS admin panel on the hosting site through API called and customers receive the appropriate emails - very handy!
There is over $100 dollars of registration money in both these account which come with the sale!

Hosting servers:
We currently have 2 linux/WHM reseller accounts on 2 different servers.
Server 1: $39.99/month for 25GB space / 250 GB Bandwidth - ~310 accounts
Server 2: $6.99/month for unlimited space and bandwidth!! - ~120 accounts
We use a combination of both servers to create cpanel hosting account for customers. All cpanel account are created automatically at the click of a button and all emails are sent to customers with login/hosting details.

Income from site:
Hosting: anywhere between 100-500 per month - this is a combination new orders and reniewals
Domains: 5-20 domains per month - earnings vary quite a bit depending on the extension registered. We make about 30% commission on average for every domain. Can include the full reseller details via PM - please request this specifically if you need it.
Webdesign: we usually take on 1-2 design clients per month if design team has time. I sometimes contract the work out to friends that can do the design.
Advertising: Currently no advertising on the site. Adsense returns about 3-10 dollars per day but takes away many of the sites potential clients due to similar product content ads! So we loose hosting/domain/design clients because they may see a better deal on the ads they see and leave the site. For this reason, I hesitate placing adsense or any other content specific advertising on the site.
Top month was about $1000 profit but you can expect 100-500 sales monthly....it varies a lot depending on traffic and serps and if you are using advertising like adwords which i sometimes run when I need to increase earnings. But more traffic = more sales = more work!

Website workload:
The site does need constant attention as orders need to be approved and questions need to be answered via helpdesk/forum/email.
Minumum maintenance: 30 minutes per day would be sufficient to maintain the site. You could expect earnings between $100-$200 dollars per month in retun.
Development: If you are prepared to put in 2-3 hours every day then you could easily increase earnings to above $500 per month.
At the moment (and for past 2 months), due to my limited time, the site is in minimal maintenance mode so I am doing nothing to try and increase earnings or attract visitors.

Payment processors:
The site currently uses paypal or 2CO but you can use just about any payment processor through the AWBS system at the click of a button!!
Paypal payments: well over $1000 worth of sales
2CO payments: well over $3000 worth of sales
In the last 12 months, the site has made well over $5000 worth of sales. There has been many costs though in the first year due to startup/experimentations so profit for me was much less of course....if I include the hours I put into it to get it going then I made a loss as I probably put in 1500 hours work into this site in the past 12 months!

SEO/traffic:
Coop weight: anywhere between 1,500-10,000 depending on google serps.
Link Vault: voltage anywhere between 700-2000
You can see the links at the bottom of every page.
We get a lot of traffic from forum posts. Yahoo is currently the best search engine with google second and MSN third but it depends on the month.
Stats screenshots can be sent to you via PM - please request if interested.
The following you can check for yourself as they are different on each day you check:
Google backlinks: 10,130
Alexia rating: 352,474 (was as high as 39,000 when a lot of work was being done on the site earlier this year)

About AWBS system:
You can check it out for yourself if you like. But everything is automated! Excellent software with excellent support staff!! So visitors order hosting/domain/services/advertising spots (links) and make payment via paypal or credit card and all you need to do is accept with one click and everything is taken care of and appropriate emails are sent out. The system works perfectly but takes a lot of expertise to run. I can help you learn it within the first month of purchase. If you have experience with AWBS then this is perfect.

About sale:
Starting BID: $1500
Reserve price: $2000
BIN: $2500
50% ownership: $1250

Payment method: I would prefer a direct wire transfer to my bank account. Paypal is also ok but will not hand over the site until the paypal payment has totally cleared and sent to my bank account which will take a few days.

Thanks for your interest.

 

Could you pm me with url.

Many thanks

 

Hi I am interested pls pm url

thank you

Garo

 

pm's send.

 

I'll buy at bin thanks

 

Please update us if the sale falls through. I'm interested..

 

Please send me url, via pm.

Thanks.

 

Is the site sold... if not please PM me url

 

I would be interested in a site trade.

Please PM me, i'm from Belgium

Didier

 

could you pm me more information please?
thank you.

 

can you PM more Info.

 

Hi all. trippyvibes will buy at bin. Payment is still pending but I do not see any problems so far. I will update the thread once payment is complete and site is sold.

thank you all for your interest!