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  1. #1
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    Established Shared Hosting Business for Sale

    Due to other opportunities that I am involved with, I have been slowly selling off portions of ArielHost to other companies (dedicated servers, VoIP, etc.) I still have 44 premium shared web hosting clients for sale.

    You can either buy the entire business, web site, and related software, or you can purchase just the clients. All clients are currently on DirectAdmin. Most of the clients run e-Commerce businesses, but there are a couple of personal site clients too.

    Note: I reserve the right to refuse sale to anyone that I don't think will take good care of these clients. Most of them have been with me for over a year, and they are pretty happy with the service, and I want that to continue.

    For full details about what the hosting packages include, please look at http://www.arielhost.com/hosting_plans.php ... here is the summary of the bandwidth offered for each package, and what the monthly billing amount is:

    P200: 200MB Disk Space, 10GB Traffic, $9/mo
    P500: 500MB Disk Space, 15GB Traffic, $11/mo
    B800: 800MB Disk Space, 25GB Traffic, $13/mo
    B1000: 1000MB Disk Space, 50GB Traffic, $17/mo
    B2000: 2000MB Disk Space, 75GB Traffic, $24/mo
    B4000: 4000MB Disk Space, 100GB Traffic, $40/mo

    The breakdown of current clients is as follows:
    P200 Monthly: 16
    P200 Semi-Annually: 1
    P200 Annually: 1
    P200 2-Year: 1
    Yearly Revenue: $2052

    P500 Monthly: 4
    Yearly Revenue: $528

    B800 Monthly: 2
    B800 Quarterly: 2
    Yearly Revenue: $624

    B1000 Monthly: 3
    Yearly Revenue: $612

    C2000 Monthly: 3
    C2000 2-Year: 1
    Yearly Revenue: $1152

    C4000: 1
    Yearly Revenue: $480

    Domains, Annual: 8
    Domains, 2-Year: 3
    Yearly Revenue: $142.87

    Total Yearly Revenue: $5590.87

    The clients are guaranteed the space and bandwidth, however, the majority of them don't even come close to using their allocation (there are some who do though... the company on the C4000 plan DOES use that much space and almost all of the bandwidth. I also have two on the C2000 plan that use all of the space and about 75% of the bandwidth).

    I will accept Paypal or direct wire transfer to my bank account only. I will not accept "payment plans" for payment of the agreed total.

    If you want more than just the clients, here is the rest of what you can have:
    - Fully managed dedicated server in RCN's Chicago Carrier Hotel with an unmetered 20mbps connection. Payments for the server are due on the 6th of the month, at $299 a month. Server just chugs along without any major problems. It's a P4, 2GB RAM, 300Gb hard drive. It can hold many more clients than what are currently on it.
    - DirectAdmin "owned" license
    - ModernBill "owned" 500 client license
    - StarDevelop live help messenger
    - Fully custom web site (not a template) that is designed to be very easy to modify. I also have the SupportTrio help desk software fully integrated into the site (click the support link on the main site to see). The domain was also PR6 the last time I checked it.
    - DemoDemo video tutorials for DirectAdmin

    What I'm NOT including:
    - My "owned" IPB license (sorry, I need it for something else)
    - SupportTrio license. However, you can obtain your own license for it (either monthly or "owned") and just apply it if you want to keep using it
    - My eNom reseller account, since I have a lot of personal domains in there too


    BIN for just the clients is the current yearly revenue. BIN for clients + everything else is $7000.

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    Hi

    Othello Technology Systems Ltd are very interested in taking on your clientbase ...

    for the:
    hosting clients as listed
    domain business as listed
    server @ RCN
    directadmin licence
    modernbill licence
    demodemo tutorials
    business domain and website

    we do not require the:
    - StarDevelop live help messenger - we use TrioLive
    - IPB license - we use vBulletin
    - SupportTrio license - we already use this
    - eNom reseller account - we are an enom etp

    for which we offer $3750 payment by paypal
    Rob Golding Astutium Ltd - UK based ICANN Accredited Domain Registrar - proud to accept BitCoins
    Buying Web Hosts and Domain Registrars Today @ hostacquisitions.co.uk
    UK Web Hosting | UK VPS | UK Dedicated Servers | ADSL/FTTC | Backup/DR | Cloud
    UK Colocation | Reseller Accounts | IPv6 Transit | Secondary MX | DNS | WHMCS Modules

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    Thanks. I had to turn down another (considerably higher, unfortunately) offer because the buyer was not someone I considered reputable. This makes you the high bidder at the moment.

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    I should also add, I have a 30 Client license of Drag & Drop Site Creator (www.dragdropsitecreator.com) that is also included. Several of the clients use it to build their site.

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    how do customers pay? Paypal? Or credit card? We can take
    - customers
    - domain name
    - demodemo tuts

    We dont need servers. We own our servers in CyberWurx. We are using Modernbill as well, and we own many DA licenses

    thanks,

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    It's a combination of credit card and Paypal. Most pay with a credit card.

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    I'm going to be closing this on Thursday.

    Current high bidder is Othellotech.

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    what is the current bid on this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by WickedShark
    what is the current bid on this?
    Looks like $3750 by Othellotech:
    http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpo...91&postcount=2
    -steve

  10. #10
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    I've sent you a PM with a couple of questions.

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    To answer a question I've received in a few PM's:

    If you move the clients to a different server, it shouldn't be a problem. However, there are two potential things you should be aware of:

    1). A couple of the clients use Drag & Drop Site Creator to manage their sites. You'd need to move this from the current server.

    2). My server is PCI Compliant. It's not hard to obtain PCI Compliance, but this is a big reason that I have many of the online stores that I have. So if you move it, you'll have to ensure that your server is compliant before you move the clients. You can use ScanAlert or any other compliance scanning service. It's now free to join ScanAlert's partner program, so that might be the best route to go.

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    Regarding the entry in your original post:

    "C4000: 1
    Yearly Revenue: $480"

    What billing cycle is this plan on?

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    It's monthly.

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    Our bid is $4'000 for the whole offer minus stardevelop live messenger, and we take care of the escrow fees as well.

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    Orc Webhosting is the current high bidder.

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    Just a reminder, last day ... closing it on Thursday morning.

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    Ariel,

    Good luck with your sale. If the offers fall through, we would be interested.


    Best Regards,

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    Quote Originally Posted by utropicmedia-karl
    Ariel,

    Good luck with your sale. If the offers fall through, we would be interested.


    Best Regards,
    There is still time to make a bid.

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    The current high bid is outside of our budget for purchasing clients. I wanted to comment if you have any issues with the winner or alternates of the auction, as when we commit to a transaction, we follow through with it.


    Kind Regards,

  20. #20
    what is the current bid

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    For clairification, I am not speaking about any of the current bidders; we have no expereince with them.


    Kind Regards,

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    Quote Originally Posted by contractdata
    what is the current bid
    $4000, Orc Webhosting

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    Current high bid via PM is $4100. Will close at midnight tonight, since there seems to be renewed interest.

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    Highest is now $4500 via email. About 4.5 hours left.

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    I offer $4700

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