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brianshost
Established Linux Hosting Company for Sale! Over $8,300/year earnings.
Due to other pursuits taking up more time than expected, we are selling our established hosting company and everything attached to it.
This includes:
• Domain Name
• A NICE website (rare in this industry)
• All of the approx. 65-70 clients
• All billing, sales, leads, client, and other records.
• Leased Server from The Planet, which has provided us with outstanding uptime and maintenance. However if you have your own server, we could sell without it and help you transfer the clients to your system.
Server cost is about $110/month, if you are interested in keeping the clients where they are. CPU load is average of 0.43. All data is verifiable upon request.
All of our clients are extremely satisfied with their service, so we are going to be somewhat picky as to who we sell them to. Please be able to provide proof of experience in running stable hosting services. Over time, we have created friendly relationships with dozens of our clients, and look forward to moving them to a place where hopefully they will be given even better service by a company with more resources.
We will provide any serious bidders with proof of our happy clientele. We even had an online poll recently on our forums that showed how happy our customers are. These are customers that will renew their annual accounts!! They advertise for us by word of mouth!
Average page visits on our homepage per month: 1180, Unique: 798
Billing Breakdown: Using Modernbill – Data from the API report
• Monthly Accounts: 33
o Monthly Income: $413.45 ( x12 = $4,961.40)
• Annual Accounts: 35
o Annual Income: $3,360.94
• Total Annual Income: $8,321.74
Hosting Plans Breakdown: All use cPanel
• Economy: 750MB storage, 20GB transfer, hosts up to 3 domains, $4.95/month, $54.50/year (does not include WHM)
o Accounts: 13 Monthly & 14 Annuals
• Basic: 2.5GB Storage, 55GB transfer, “unlimited” domains, WHM, $9.95/month, $99.50/year
o Accounts: 8 Monthly & 11 Annuals
• Advanced: Same as Basic, but 6GB storage, 75GB transfer, $14.95/month, $149.50/year
o Accounts: 2 Monthly & 4 Annuals
• Business: Same as above, but 9GB Storage, 100GB transfer, $19.95/month, $199.50/year
o Accounts: 3 Monthly & 3 Annuals
• Corporate: Same as above, but 15GB storage, 175GB transfer, $29.95/month, $299.50/year
o Accounts: 6 Monthly & 1 Annual
Some accounts are paying an extra $3/month for private IP addresses. Domains have been registered by clients through us for $10 (those can be separate accounts, which is why the API report numbers and hosting packages numbers don’t quite match up).
*note: Since revising this post, we have received several (approx 5) orders being monthly Economy/Basic accounts. We typically receive a few orders a week without any advertising expenses.
All accounts currently include the Fantastico suite.
Clients have come to appreciate the way we have dealt with storage and bandwidth. For instance, their email accounts can be as large as they like, it just occupies their given allotment of storage. Same with bandwidth; if a client wants to send a 2GB email attachment (I know I know, just bear with me) they can, however it will occupy their monthly bandwidth (a.k.a. transfer) allotment.
We have had very few cancellations, in fact only 5. 2 of which were because someone’s child had ordered online without parental permission. And just 1 fraud! Not bad!
The business is located at www.SupremacyHosting.com.
With annual earnings of over 8k, I would like to start the bidding at just that, 8k.
Please feel free to post bids on the thread or privately to me via PM or eMail. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions, this is no small transaction and I understand that any potential bidders/buyers must be well informed. We’ll answer quickly!
Due to other pursuits taking up more time than expected, we are selling our established hosting company and everything attached to it.
This includes:
• Domain Name
• A NICE website (rare in this industry)
• All of the approx. 65-70 clients
• All billing, sales, leads, client, and other records.
• Leased Server from The Planet, which has provided us with outstanding uptime and maintenance. However if you have your own server, we could sell without it and help you transfer the clients to your system.
Server cost is about $110/month, if you are interested in keeping the clients where they are. CPU load is average of 0.43. All data is verifiable upon request.
All of our clients are extremely satisfied with their service, so we are going to be somewhat picky as to who we sell them to. Please be able to provide proof of experience in running stable hosting services. Over time, we have created friendly relationships with dozens of our clients, and look forward to moving them to a place where hopefully they will be given even better service by a company with more resources.
We will provide any serious bidders with proof of our happy clientele. We even had an online poll recently on our forums that showed how happy our customers are. These are customers that will renew their annual accounts!! They advertise for us by word of mouth!
Average page visits on our homepage per month: 1180, Unique: 798
Billing Breakdown: Using Modernbill – Data from the API report
• Monthly Accounts: 33
o Monthly Income: $413.45 ( x12 = $4,961.40)
• Annual Accounts: 35
o Annual Income: $3,360.94
• Total Annual Income: $8,321.74
Hosting Plans Breakdown: All use cPanel
• Economy: 750MB storage, 20GB transfer, hosts up to 3 domains, $4.95/month, $54.50/year (does not include WHM)
o Accounts: 13 Monthly & 14 Annuals
• Basic: 2.5GB Storage, 55GB transfer, “unlimited” domains, WHM, $9.95/month, $99.50/year
o Accounts: 8 Monthly & 11 Annuals
• Advanced: Same as Basic, but 6GB storage, 75GB transfer, $14.95/month, $149.50/year
o Accounts: 2 Monthly & 4 Annuals
• Business: Same as above, but 9GB Storage, 100GB transfer, $19.95/month, $199.50/year
o Accounts: 3 Monthly & 3 Annuals
• Corporate: Same as above, but 15GB storage, 175GB transfer, $29.95/month, $299.50/year
o Accounts: 6 Monthly & 1 Annual
Some accounts are paying an extra $3/month for private IP addresses. Domains have been registered by clients through us for $10 (those can be separate accounts, which is why the API report numbers and hosting packages numbers don’t quite match up).
*note: Since revising this post, we have received several (approx 5) orders being monthly Economy/Basic accounts. We typically receive a few orders a week without any advertising expenses.
All accounts currently include the Fantastico suite.
Clients have come to appreciate the way we have dealt with storage and bandwidth. For instance, their email accounts can be as large as they like, it just occupies their given allotment of storage. Same with bandwidth; if a client wants to send a 2GB email attachment (I know I know, just bear with me) they can, however it will occupy their monthly bandwidth (a.k.a. transfer) allotment.
We have had very few cancellations, in fact only 5. 2 of which were because someone’s child had ordered online without parental permission. And just 1 fraud! Not bad!
The business is located at www.SupremacyHosting.com.
With annual earnings of over 8k, I would like to start the bidding at just that, 8k.
Please feel free to post bids on the thread or privately to me via PM or eMail. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions, this is no small transaction and I understand that any potential bidders/buyers must be well informed. We’ll answer quickly!
Beachcomber
Ok, so here is where I have an issue and may want to suggest a word of caution here.
by my calculations...The owner has sold the following:
263 GB of space
3824 of bandwidth
Now, if the server cost is $110 per month, my bet is this is at BEST (Since we are one of the top partners with ThePlanet/SM and have a real good idea of costs) a 2.8 with a 80 GB drive and 1000-1200GB of bandwidth (Most likely a Celeron)....So this server is oversold 3X to 4X...and that may very well come home to bite the new owner in the butt some day..and if it is a celeron <SHIVER>
Your revenue is 8300 per year...No deduction taken for server costs. (8300 - [110*12])=$7000.
The domain, (I assume it is included) is less than 1 year old:
Domain Name: SUPREMACYHOSTING.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.TGKND.COM
Name Server: NS2.TGKND.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 05-feb-2005
Creation Date: 11-jul-2004
Expiration Date: 11-jul-2005
So, you have no history of any of the annuals actually renewing
Nameservers are:
NS1.TGKND.COM NS2.TGKND.COM
Does that domain come with the sale also?
Your site states 24-7 support...how do you man that 24-7 and what costs are involved ?
Also on the site it states Free Namservers (ns1/ns2.yourdomain.com)
(2) IPs cost money unless you are using shared IPs...
I am not bring up these concerns to bash your company or your business plan, etc.....But to point out that you asking price, even in todays somewhat inflated market is probably not going to create much interest.
Or better put, I am not sure but I think this dog won't hunt...
by my calculations...The owner has sold the following:
263 GB of space
3824 of bandwidth
Now, if the server cost is $110 per month, my bet is this is at BEST (Since we are one of the top partners with ThePlanet/SM and have a real good idea of costs) a 2.8 with a 80 GB drive and 1000-1200GB of bandwidth (Most likely a Celeron)....So this server is oversold 3X to 4X...and that may very well come home to bite the new owner in the butt some day..and if it is a celeron <SHIVER>
Your revenue is 8300 per year...No deduction taken for server costs. (8300 - [110*12])=$7000.
The domain, (I assume it is included) is less than 1 year old:
Domain Name: SUPREMACYHOSTING.COM
Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name Server: NS1.TGKND.COM
Name Server: NS2.TGKND.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 05-feb-2005
Creation Date: 11-jul-2004
Expiration Date: 11-jul-2005
So, you have no history of any of the annuals actually renewing
Nameservers are:
NS1.TGKND.COM NS2.TGKND.COM
Does that domain come with the sale also?
Your site states 24-7 support...how do you man that 24-7 and what costs are involved ?
Also on the site it states Free Namservers (ns1/ns2.yourdomain.com)
(2) IPs cost money unless you are using shared IPs...
I am not bring up these concerns to bash your company or your business plan, etc.....But to point out that you asking price, even in todays somewhat inflated market is probably not going to create much interest.
Or better put, I am not sure but I think this dog won't hunt...
brianshost
Mark,
Thanks for your notes. Since you are familiar with The Planet then I'm sure you know how efficiently they handle drive installations. We have been dealing with them for a while, and we have them add a storage drive when our current system has reached 80% capacity. We think that potential bidders of our company would appreciate this cost reducing way of handling storage.
It is true that the NET annual income is approx $7000. I added our overhead costs in order for people like you do calculate it out for your own needs. The $8,300 figure is in case someone wants to move everything to their own servers.
The 24/7 support is via eMail, phone, and livechat. We are currently switching livechat systems, so it has been down frequently. However to answer your question, no "cost" is taken for the 24/7 support. We have received possibly 10 total support calls over the past 6 months, and don't anticipate any change in that pattern.
Yes, as I stated in the post, the domain is included in the sale.
Yes, shared IP's unless the client is paying an extra $4/month for a private IP address.
Again, I honestly appreciate you taking the time to dissect our offer and I hope that I have addressed your concerns. Regarding the bidding starting price, we are taking ALL offers that are from serious bidders.
Thanks.
Thanks for your notes. Since you are familiar with The Planet then I'm sure you know how efficiently they handle drive installations. We have been dealing with them for a while, and we have them add a storage drive when our current system has reached 80% capacity. We think that potential bidders of our company would appreciate this cost reducing way of handling storage.
It is true that the NET annual income is approx $7000. I added our overhead costs in order for people like you do calculate it out for your own needs. The $8,300 figure is in case someone wants to move everything to their own servers.
The 24/7 support is via eMail, phone, and livechat. We are currently switching livechat systems, so it has been down frequently. However to answer your question, no "cost" is taken for the 24/7 support. We have received possibly 10 total support calls over the past 6 months, and don't anticipate any change in that pattern.
Yes, as I stated in the post, the domain is included in the sale.
Yes, shared IP's unless the client is paying an extra $4/month for a private IP address.
Again, I honestly appreciate you taking the time to dissect our offer and I hope that I have addressed your concerns. Regarding the bidding starting price, we are taking ALL offers that are from serious bidders.
Thanks.
omegacomm
Brianhost, we hare very interested. If this is still available, please reach out to me at greg@omegacomminc.com. Let me know either way please.
Thanks,
Greg
Thanks,
Greg