Huge Technology/Jobs/Articles/forum/blog Portal making $500+ month

The site is Coders2020. I had spent 3 months day/night in building the site from scratch using Drupal. The site makes $300 in adsense +$80 in Kontera + $120+ with link sales per month. There are ofcourse other ways of making money from the site which I have told at the end of the post as well as the reason of why I am selling it. Please go through the whole auction post.

The site is HUGE...its total size is well above 1GB with 150+ MB of DB alone. The site is a Complete Portal for Technology and Jobs mostly targeted to indians though major chunk of traffic comes from US through Google.

It has everything that a Complete Portal can be imagined off.
* Forum with 1000+ users. Daily 3-5 ppl join the site.
* Admin Blog (each user can also have his blog like www.coders2020.com/blog/username if you want to enable this)
* Articles Section (tons of unique handwritten articles by me)
* Quiz section (site members can take quizzes on many tech/programming topics)
* Puzzle Book (a Puzzle Book of aptitude questions)
* Placement Papers (hundred of recently asked papers )
* Resources (various helpful tutorials)
* Tools (Major Attraction of the site). It has a list of 300+ proxy sites. Lot of money can be earned from this proxy list alone. The site also has popular youtube video download pages as well rapidhsare/megaupload search tool page which gets good traffic from serps. It has few more tools.
* Ask the Question (See Front Page - User can ask the question in the given tech categories). This is seperate from the forum and is a complete custom code from me.
* Jobs section - I am using feeds from almost all the indian job sites and showing them on my site. each job will have its own page like http://www.coders2020.com/data-protection-senior-qa-engineer
The feeds automatically gets updated daily using cron.

There are many many features which I won't be able to mention right now but let me assure you, this is NO BS thread where I am selling something overpriced. The site is no way near to its full potential.

Why I am selling it - I had no intentions to sell it as I have put my soul into it but after finishing my graduation I am working as a software engineer from 9am to 9pm and have NO time to monitor it. I can't even reply to the comments I get. Secondly, the site is getting too huge and my host has pulled the plug many times in the past 30 days(which can be seen from stats). The site gets too many apache hits as Google loves it(last month it was having 52k pages in google) + it has multiple crons which kills the shared server. My host has given me 14 days and than he will remove the site from it. The site can not be maintained on anything less than dedicated server. I feels it is better to sell the site as I can't take spend any time on it for atleast 3 months.

Revenue Details:
I have attached few images from analytics and 3 months adsense income excluding last months as the site was frequently down(which can be seen from stats). If you want, I can also post Kontera stats in a day. I have sold $50/3 months links on the lower right hand side of the site(all the links have expired on 22nd July but I am still keeping it). I have made around $400+ from the links for the periond of 3 months.

I have also review some sites in my blog as well post proxy sites on /proxy page for $$$ which I am not calculating. As I said, the site has HUGE potential as a money maker if you are the right person. Honestly, I don't think you will be able to take it too far if you dont' work on it, although let me assure you, it will still be making $$$ for you without doing any work.

I am willing to share my experience,knowledge as well as vision for the site with the new owner and will help him in to understand the site strucutre Please feel free to ask any questions via pm. I am in India and if you want, we can also talk on Phone. I have tried my best to cover every aspect of the site but I think I have still missed few things Anyway serious interested people pm me and we can discuss it. I will also be giving you my 2 Orkut account which have hundreds of friends through which I get good traffic though 85% traffic is from serps only. Some of the stats pics are below. Unfortunatley the last months stats are kind of broken because the site was down for almost half of the time. I am willing to share all the stats and info about site to interested bidders.

Starting Price - $1000
BIN - $12000

Payment Method - We can talk on it later though escrow.com will be prefered to safeguard everyonce interests.

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I have got some offers at Sitepoint and I am discussing them(NO BIN yet). I have also reduced the BIN to $8000 and I am open to discuss all possibilities to the interested parties

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