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batcavenet
06-08-2002, 10:26 PM
I am selling my hosting startup to work on other ventures. What I have for sale is as follow..

2 brand new 1u gateway servers (36 gig scsi) colocated at venturesonline.com - these are less than 3 months old

recently added another 36 gig scsi drive to each and also 512 mb more of ECC ram to each

- 20 paying customers with revenue of 338$ per month before fees
- custom template that I had designed for this site
- phpmanager
- domain name which is really nice which I also purchased

The servers are very underutilized at this point - and have very few customers on them - so room for expansion is really good

This is over 3000$ worth of new hosting hardware - and also 20 customers to go with it. Here is a picture of the two servers I have..

http://www.gateway.com/work/prod/sb_gtwy935c_ProdDetail.shtml before I added more ram and hard drives

I figure the customers are worth about 50$ each so that's another 1000$

I am selling the whole works for 4000 - at this point I am just at the break even costs / revenue so someone with an existing customers that needs a couple of really nice fast servers would like this and could move a lot of customers to the servers.

http://www.axishost.com is the domain - please talk to me on ICQ at 2547147

Thank you - Jeremy - Owner axishost.com

batcavenet
06-08-2002, 10:35 PM
All reasonable offers considered :)

tylerk
06-08-2002, 10:52 PM
Are you commited to a contract with the co location of the servers.

batcavenet
06-08-2002, 11:16 PM
no

beglobal
06-09-2002, 01:59 AM
Are you interested in splitting the sale of the hardware from the customers?

HostingDirect
06-09-2002, 07:23 AM
What is the monthly cost to keep the servers running at VO for cpanel, colo and b/w. Also how much b/w do you get in you plan and how much is in use? Also are the customers paying monthly

Thanks!

carolinahosting
06-09-2002, 05:36 PM
Are all your customers paying with credit card? Also, what monthly prices are your customers paying you? IE: x at $19.95 p/m

Also, how much bandwidth do you get now? What is your server co-location monthly fee's?

carolinahosting
06-09-2002, 05:44 PM
Opps, refrshed my browser and the system made another post. Sorry

batcavenet
06-10-2002, 10:00 AM
I'm not interested in splitting the customers and the hardware - and I have found a buyer that will buy the whole works including hardware. If this falls through I may consider other offers

JDT

ho247
06-10-2002, 10:12 AM
You shouldn't have a problem selling your web hosting business at WHT, but the details about the clients is a little vague (are they yearly paying? which plans are they on?), also as already mentioned above, the running costs of the business would be helpful (co-location costs?). Obviously you don't want to disclose everything about your business, but those listed are essential in a sale for the right price.

Alan