How to sell your hosting company.
If you are a host trying to sell your company I would suggest you do the following in your posts. Just a suggestion, but I think it will stop many of the information only requests that will allow a buyer to make a clear decision on pursuing any purchase.
1. Define what you are selling. Is it a web site, clients, support software etc. Or is it just part of the company such as clients only or domain only.
Example:
Hi, I’m selling my hosting company it includes the domain name, 55 clients, leased modernbill and perldesk. I rent servers from host X. You may take over my lease at $X per month or you may move to your own servers. We started our hosting company in 2003.
2. Provide a break down of the plans you offer. The number of clients in that plan, plan price, bandwidth, disk space for that plan.
Example:
I have 55 clients
23 on Reseller Plan A at $15.00 per month – 2 Gb disk and 5 Gb bandwidth
8 on Reseller Plan B at $25.00 per month - 3 Gb disk and 6 Gb bandwidth
12 on Reseller Plan C at $30.00 per month – 4 Gb disk and 8 Gb bandwidth
12 on Virtual Plan A at $6.00 per month – 500 Mb and 2 Gb per month
3. Break down client income by monthly, quarterly, semiannual, annual. Include how much revenue each of the clients groups generate.
Example:
51 Monthly $765.00
3 Quarterly $30.00
2 Annually $60.00
Total Yearly Income: $9,660.00
4. Servers and control panel types. Also total disk space and bandwidth used.
Example:
We are using 2 Cpanel servers with 2.4 Ghz P4, 1 Gb RAM, one 80 Gb HD and 1000 Gb of bandwidth per month.
Total used disk space 110 Gb and total used bandwidth 1,200 Gb per month.
5. What do you offer your clients?
Example:
We offer our client’s 24/7 support desk, telephone support from 9-5 M-F, servers also have fantastico. We have a client forum with a VB that is included.
I'm sure others can suggest some other things that would help.