Hello,

I have a web hosting company for sale.
I started this business in November 2000.
Here is my offer:

- Customers ~150 (98% US customers)
- Only yearly plans (next billing period start in November)
- Company owns ~60 domains
- Professional Web Site
- Control Panel with automatic sign-up
- Dedicated server (Linux) hosted in reputable data center (DtWebWorks.com) for $149/mo.
- Getting clients form referrers
- Promoted by paid ads (ie. WebHostDir, FindWhat and more)



Why I'm selling ??? I got US visa and I'm going to the States and I'll not be
able to continue the business. This is the only reason.

If You are interested in please email me with concrete questions and propositions.

Thank You

dlcrum15@hotmail.com

Why won't you be able to continue? New job and no time?

What's your company name?
How much do you want to sell for?

I would be very interested in buy your current customers and server.

More info needed though... contact me @ mail@evanoliver.com or icq 30326192

thanks.

Hey guys,

thanks for interest. I'll contact You with additional information soon.

I want to be honest with You, I'm selling the company because:

- I'll have no time (You know that there must be someone to run the hosting business all the time)
I work all day long (as many of You) to keep the business up

- I'm going to the USA to study. So I think I will not have much time.

- I want to keep my customers happy and I do not have confidence in other workers


I forgot to tell You:

The company turnover for 6 months is: ~$12000

Please email me if You are interested.

dlcrum15@hotmail.com

PS. In my opinion hosting business is very profitable and in the future I'll open a hosting business once again for sure.

Can you tell us the PRICE you are selling the company for?

There would be no income from these clients for 7 months. That is not cool. Sure I'd be interested in purchasing clients, but only if I knew they would generate a positive revenue stream.

To me this sale offer is like asking "Does anyone want the burden of supporting my 150 clients. Oh yeah, you won't get paid for at least 7 months, and you will have to pay for the privledge..."

My 2 cents of course,

Brian

There would be no income from these clients for 7 months. That is not cool. Sure I'd be interested in purchasing clients,
but only if I knew they would generate a positive revenue stream.

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bteeter,I agree but:

- if You only want to buy customers You have right.
You can't be sure if they will want to renew their accounts but I'm not selling only customers I'm selling
whole company (web site, customers, brand)

- If I got 150 customers within 5-6 months You can easily get another 150 or more.

You own web hosting company right ? so You know that this is very good business - the hardest is to get first clients. If You have proper plans and care about customers You got new customers without advertising !

Thank You.

What is the hosting site and name you are selling? Also send me a e-mail with what you want for this as well. Thanks

You might try posting this at FindSP..they have a forum for selling online business.
http://www.findsp.com/forum/

his url/domain name. Notice they are usin' a hotmail email address? How can you take someone that wants to sell a biz (any kind of) and they use a hotmail account, seriously?!

Originally posted by NameDepot
Notice they are usin' a hotmail email address? How can you take someone that wants to sell a biz (any kind of) and they use a hotmail account, seriously?! I don't think there's anything underhanded, surprising, or at all questionable with avoiding stating the name of the company or website being offered for sale in a public forum. No reason at all not to take it seriously -- look in any newspaper in the "business opportunities" section of the classifieds. You'll see dozens of established businesses for sale, but you'll see only general descriptions of what they are and where they're located. If you want more information, contact the seller and ask.

Besides the more general reasons, it's become pretty clear that to offer a company or product for sale in the WHT forums means opening yourself up to criticism of everything from your website design to your business plan in the thread in which you post your offer. As far as I'm concerned, it'd be foolish to state that information here.

[Edited by JayC on 04-10-2001 at 12:46 AM]

[Edited by JayC on 04-10-2001 at 12:58 AM]

Sheesh, you'd think I'd never posted here before! Sorry, meant to edit, but instead I quoted. Too bad we can't delete posts any more!

[Edited by JayC on 04-10-2001 at 01:00 AM]

Originally posted by Martie
You might try posting this at FindSP..they have a forum for selling online business.You misspelled "we." :)

FYI, Martie's a moderator at FindSP. It's a nice looking site; brand new (that is, if you were to go there right now and post your online business for sale, you'd be the first to do so).

You have every right to think its foolish to post the domain name of a biz for sale here, just like I have every reason to think that anyone who continues this discussion of what your biz maybe worth, knowin' they are not gonna get the name of it, is also foolish.
Bye.Originally posted by JayC
Originally posted by NameDepot
Notice they are usin' a hotmail email address? How can you take someone that wants to sell a biz (any kind of) and they use a hotmail account, seriously?! I don't think there's anything underhanded, surprising, or at all questionable with avoiding stating the name of the company or website being offered for sale in a public forum. No reason at all not to take it seriously -- look in any newspaper in the "business opportunities" section of the classifieds. You'll see dozens of established businesses for sale, but you'll see only general descriptions of what they are and where they're located. If you want more information, contact the seller and ask.

Besides the more general reasons, it's become pretty clear that to offer a company or product for sale in the WHT forums means opening yourself up to criticism of everything from your website design to your business plan in the thread in which you post your offer. As far as I'm concerned, it'd be foolish to state that information here.

[Edited by JayC on 04-10-2001 at 12:46 AM]

you know this advertising forum is more like a battle field.

If you want to sell the company, post the URL and company name here. You will sell it ten times as fast. Also proof of ownership would help alot.

everyone can go home now. If this idiot won't post the domain name of his hosting biz, there can be no battle. (i.e. if the name is jayshostingbiz.com, that is maybe a $2 name. If the name is webhost.com, on the other hand, we maybe talkin' $1M + for that name, alone).

Here's the way I look at it. The customers paid for a year .. so the company has a 7 month liability. This is offset by whatever the brand, site, and current activity is.

Assets:

WebSite
Brand
Goodwill

Liabilities:
Cost to host customers for 7 months?
Cost to support customers for 7 months?

Owners Equity:

??????????????

If you can demonstrate the value of the owners equity.. then
maybe I may be interested.

Perhaps he doesn't want to alarm his clients by posting his url here and wants to sell without much disturbance.

He is being very smart by not posting his url on the forums.
If he does post it on the forums, a lot of you will tear him a part for no good reason, and could cause him to loose a lot of money. I know... :) Plus, you don't want to alarm you clients, that could hurt him and the buyer of the company.

I understand not wanting to post the company's name and URL on the forums, but he should at least be willing to disclose this information via email when requested.

... and then you can spill the beans ...

Yea i asked for a E-mail for more info on this deal and still have not got any thing. Maybe he thinks its still April 1st or he missed out that day..LOL

I got a very lengthy email, and he said if I'm still interested I must reply one more time... blah blah... didn't you get that email yet?

Why would he give it to you in an email????
Then, you might just take it and post it on the forum, and what he didn't want to happen, has happened. I am sure, before he ask you to send him any money, or when he decides that he trust you, he will let you know the company name and url!


:)



Regards,

DaHost'nMan

Never go that e-mail..LOL But if he needs it agian it info@vortechhosting.com. I hope he e-mails me some hting or if you could send me over what he sent you.

After I talked to him, and sent him a few emails. He sent me the url. I am sure he will do the same for you, although I think he does need to be very careful!

Did you email him? If you email him, he will reply.

Originally posted by DaHost'nMan
Why would he give it to you in an email????
Then, you might just take it and post it on the forum, and what he didn't want to happen, has happened. I am sure, before he ask you to send him any money, or when he decides that he trust you, he will let you know the company name and url!

When you send a legitimate proposal describing your intentions and asking specific questions such as what is your company's name/website, what price are we looking at, can you clarify whether the buyer will receive no payment from the customers until the year is up, etc., you expect to be provided with at least some of this information in order to come up with a reasonable offer.

I agree it would be foolish to open yourself up to attacks from the immature people around here by posting your URL and company name out in the open, but what reasonable person is going to propose a serious offer when the information they are given by email pertains only to the server and hosting plans? Company name, brand, and reputation are all just as important.

Too bad this thread has drifted from the specifics of the company being sold to a general discussion of how to sell a hosting company, but c'est la vie.

Here's my take: if it were me, I'd post a general description of the company and clientele and turn on the email link in my profile and invite email responses. When I got a response, I'd decide how to reply to each one based on the content of that response. Any response similar to many of those often posted publicly here after such offers -- basically attacking the business model -- I'd simply ignore. I'd use a throwaway hotmail or yahoo address. Before getting into real specifics, I'd probably consider entering into a mutual non-disclosure agreement.

Look, to me this is a business. I'm running a corporation, and I take it seriously. I have a board of directors; we run things past an attorney. If I were to consider selling our clients or company here, I'd approach it as an adult selling a company, not as a kid in a schoolyard exchanging trading cards.

But that's just me.

and posting it for sale, on a public message board, isn't one of them imo. But thats just me.

Originally posted by JayC
Here's my take: if it were me, I'd post a general description of the company and clientele and turn on the email link in my profile and invite email responses. When I got a response, I'd decide how to reply to each one based on the content of that response. Any response similar to many of those often posted publicly here after such offers -- basically attacking the business model -- I'd simply ignore. I'd use a throwaway hotmail or yahoo address. Before getting into real specifics, I'd probably consider entering into a mutual non-disclosure agreement.Great take on the situation, JayC. Personally, that is the type of approach I would like to see more of.