Major webhosting provider for sale [+70k annually]

saleprohost · #1 06-05-2012, 03:49 PM

Up for sale is a complete Hosting Company in France. We provide Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Cloud/VPS hosting, Domain names, SSL certificates... The company has been around since 2009. This sale will be for the complete packing including all domain names, clients, web site, etc. We have a very good SEO on Google France and are among the 10 biggest web-hosting providers in France.

What is included:

• Company domain name
• The company Delaware LLC documents (you will change the name of the owner : you can do it online)
• Even if the company is registered, we don’t really use it. We only registered it to get the EV SSL
• Completely designed website, complete WHMCS integration with green EV SSL
• Two Support Agents
• KnowledgeBase articles (French)
• All of our domains
• All of our clients
• Our mails, our accounts, our servers...

Statistics of the last 3 months :
January : 7,623.84 USD
February : 8,628.58 USD
March : 6,582.84 USD
April : 6,986.35 USD

Our business is growing : last year we won only 2900$ in April.

Shared/Reseller Hosting:
We have 1895 clients currently hosted on 3 dedicated servers (and two remote MySQL servers two them):

- Cpu : 8cores (intel xeon)
- Frequency : 4x 2(HT)x 2.66+ GHz
- Architecture : 64 bits
- Memory : 24 Go
- Hard disk : 2 To

Cloud/VPS server :
We have 76 clients currently hosted on 3 dedicated servers :

- Cpu : 4 cores (intel xeon)
- Frequency : 4x 2.66+ GHz
- Architecture : 64 bits
- Memory : 16 Go
- Hard disk : 2 To

Domains :
We have 2673 domains registered on 2 different registrars (Mostly : .COM, .FR, .NET …)

Payments:
We provide Paypal, Credit Card (through Paypal), Alertpay, Skrill...

Customers & Helpdesk:
Around 95% of our customers are from the France, a few Canada and North Africa.
We have on average 20 daily tickets (currently more). Two Support Agents are working for us, they both speak French and English.
You must speak (or have someone on your team, or hire someone that speaks) French. Support operators only do basic level 1 tickets, the rest is for you.

Costs :
Our site is hosted alone one a different server.
We also use a Cluster for the DNS, so we have a total amount of 9 servers.
As a result we pay 9 servers, WHMCS licence, 3 Cpanel Licences, 3 CloudLinux licenses, 3 Softaculous licenses which represent an overall cost of a little over 1000 USD per month.

Why we are selling :
We are students and did not expected the company to grow that fast. Now, we are having CPU issues on some shared server and have decided to move MySQL to a remote server to take off some load. Operation is going well but we are getting too much tickets and just don’t have time to take care of it properly.

Bids :
Bidding starts at $10,000.
If you bid, please do it publicly.
We are looking for a reputable person/company who can take care of the clients as how we did.

Please note that this is NOT an auction. This sale does not have an ending date. We reserve the right to sell to whomever we see fit to take over the company. You can contact us for the name (NDA) [saleprohost@gmail.com]

UNIXy · #2 06-05-2012, 04:06 PM

What are your payroll costs? I noticed your monthly income is dropping but saw you bumped it from 60k to 70k annual. Can you explain?

Thanks

saleprohost · #3 06-05-2012, 04:08 PM

Since both support operator work only about an hour a day (but usually more), we pay them each 200$/month (you"re free to not keep them) and their are already included in our overall costs.
For the change, it was in euro before (our main currency) so I just made the conversion in USD and round it down.

WireNine · #4 06-05-2012, 04:12 PM

Please send me more details and NDA at ali.k@wirenine.com

**CGotzmann** · #5 06-05-2012, 07:49 PM

Where are the servers hosted?
Why is your income going down for last 3-4 months?

jwb888 · #6 06-05-2012, 11:32 PM

Hi there

We are interested too. Please send NDA to warwick@bergs.net.

Thanks very much
Cheers
Warwick

aridelhosting · #7 06-06-2012, 09:42 AM

Please send NDA. I am interested, I have a person that will be able to do the support in both English and French.

info[at]aridel.com

Thx,
Gus Delgado

Amanah · #8 06-06-2012, 11:33 AM

Hi:
Are most of the customers French speaking?

ckhoster · #9 06-06-2012, 12:26 PM

Hi, Im interested in purchasing. Please send NDA to webhostck(at)gmail.com . I have some questions to email you.

**astutiumRob** · #10 06-06-2012, 10:01 PM

Are the support team your actual staff or an outsourced company?
Which domain registrars have been used for client domains?
How many tickets raised in April and May?
Where are the servers rented from?
How many IP addresses in use?

NDA requested by email :-)