Quality Site: TalkThis - phpBB Forum Hosting - Custom Design/Backend/Well Established

URL: http://www.talkthis.com

Age of site (months): 7

Monthly revenue: N/A

Revenue details:
I have never pushed for any revenue. It's fairly easy to make, though. You can put ads in between posts, in the header, the footer, etc. The backend will let you control ads (also suspend/delete/rename, etc, forums). The only ad I have up is a small linkbar which doesn't get many clicks, at all.

Please see this sale. The site had around 200 forums hosted when it sold and it made $165 a month from YPN. TalkThis hosts 400 forums. I have not tried YPN yet but I'm confident you can make decent money.


(That graph script also isn't free!)

I have had a lot of interest in removing ads, FTP access, etc. I have this page up but all people that have contacted me I have declined/deferred due to lack of time.

Monthly page views: ~5k uniques/month

Traffic details:
The traffic is very steady. No need to promote the site.
http://www.talkthis.com/stats.htm

Description:
The largest forum can be seen here.

I have coded a custom CMS which is used to display the news on the front page of the site. All features work.

The design is custom designed from TenFourStudios.com (Tenfourstudios on SP -- The sitepoint designer of the year!). XHTML/CSS tableless.

The site runs a licensed and very customized version of Sebflipper's multiforum script. I have installed and wrote many modifications. Many of these modifications cost me money. For example, all forums are fully search engine friendly (SE friendly URLs). TalkThis also runs a licensed version of extremestyles mod which caches SQL queries/templates in order to decrease server load.

The admin area of each phpBB forum is customized.


Each forum comes with approximately 310 skins that have been edited to work with all the mods.

Basically, this site grows with no effort at all. Each forum links to TalkThis so as one forum grows, people may sign up for their own forum.

Type of site:
Established and functional website with traffic

Price (or starting bid): 400

Is an auction?: Yes - Minimum bid increment: $50

Indexed pages (Google):
768

Google page rank: 4

Alexa site rank: 212,955

(CURRENT BID: $400)

 

where is it hosted? is it running on a dedicated server?... how much do is it cost you per month?