[Dewetha]

Hi Guys,

I am selling my web hosting firm - I was a bit unsure about advertising it here but I guess there may be a few web designers or existing web hosting companies on this forum who may be interested.

The company itself has approximately 80 domains. Packages are priced from £16.99 to £129.00. Packages are sensible, the £129 packages gets you 1gb of storage and 5gb of bandwidth per month. We have two servers, one low spec, one high spec we are currently in the process of migrating all domains to the new spec server.

The new high spec server is a dedicated server running fedora core 6 and plesk 8.2.

Server Spec:

Single Core AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1GB DDR Ram
2x 160gb Drives in RAID 1
Plesk 8.0 100 domain license.
160gb of ftp backup storage with the server.
Server based in high availability data centre in Germany.
Cost: £75/month

The lower spec server is a celeron, 256mb, 40gb, and is pre paid for up until mid November, I anticipate this server will be cancelled at this point.

We have a ticketing system in place but at this time no automatic billing. Each invoice is raised by hand, this is what is part driving the sale. Due to a change in personal circumstances I no longer have the time to continue the manual billing, support etc and although I would like to keep the business and implement the automatic billing etc but I am not finding I have the time to progress the business in this direction.

Clients:

Clients are a mix of business and personal users and the sites hosted range from small 1 page static sites to forums and gallerys to dynamicly driven business websites.

Financials:

In the last 12 months we have invoiced for £2500 for hosting and domain registrations/renewals.

Domains:

98% of our customers domains are registered through us, and are held within a 123-reg.co.uk account the minority however have purchased the domains elsewhere and point their nameservers at our dns servers.

DNS:

An external company run our nameservers on a geographically diverse server farms. We are in the process of migrating this back in house however as we migrate clients to the new server.

Other products:

In addition to the core business of hosting, we also offer a spam filtering solution which is provisioned by pointing a clients mx record to an external company who then return the filtered mail to our server for our clients to pickup. At this time we do not offer, VPS servers, dedicated servers or ADSL broadband although these are all areas our clients have asked if we can provide. This could be an avenue a new owner could investigate.

Support:

Typically we offer a 24 hour response to our clients via the ticketing system. They are all happy and used to this, we have not over promised on response times.

What's included in the sale?:

The server lease.
The 123-reg account
The domain names. (.net,.co.uk, org.uk, and .biz
The clients
A new website design template
AWBS license
excel invoice manager license.
Full paper records of the clients from the moment they setup their account.
Full phone and email support for a changeover period of 3 months. More if required.

Timescale:

The timescale for the sale is very flexible. If the right buyer comes along and makes an acceptable offer we are happy to sell straight away. If for any reason you wish to delay the sale, we are happy to continue running the company but a deposit will be required.

How to proceed:

Any interested parties should contact me via pm or via webhostingtalk@dewetha.co.uk (please note dewetha.co.uk is not the web host for sale) I will then provide any further information requested. Please provide your own contact details and also details of any existing web host that you own including amount of clients, name of firm etc. I want to ensure that I sell to a company/person who is capable of running the server and supporting the clients as I know some of the clients personally and want them to continue to get a good quality of service.

I will post a further post within this thread in a few days time with the closing date of any offers.

I hope I have included enough information to get some people interested but all comments and questions are welcome (NDA may be required for detailed answers but I can certainly provide guideline information easily.

I hope to speak to a few of you soon.

Regards,

Charlie

[jamal]

I am intrested to purchase your clients feel free to email me

Originally Posted by Dewetha

Hi Guys,

I am selling my web hosting firm - I was a bit unsure about advertising it here but I guess there may be a few web designers or existing web hosting companies on this forum who may be interested.

The company itself has approximately 80 domains. Packages are priced from £16.99 to £129.00. Packages are sensible, the £129 packages gets you 1gb of storage and 5gb of bandwidth per month. We have two servers, one low spec, one high spec we are currently in the process of migrating all domains to the new spec server.

The new high spec server is a dedicated server running fedora core 6 and plesk 8.2.

Server Spec:

Single Core AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1GB DDR Ram
2x 160gb Drives in RAID 1
Plesk 8.0 100 domain license.
160gb of ftp backup storage with the server.
Server based in high availability data centre in Germany.
Cost: £75/month

The lower spec server is a celeron, 256mb, 40gb, and is pre paid for up until mid November, I anticipate this server will be cancelled at this point.

We have a ticketing system in place but at this time no automatic billing. Each invoice is raised by hand, this is what is part driving the sale. Due to a change in personal circumstances I no longer have the time to continue the manual billing, support etc and although I would like to keep the business and implement the automatic billing etc but I am not finding I have the time to progress the business in this direction.

Clients:

Clients are a mix of business and personal users and the sites hosted range from small 1 page static sites to forums and gallerys to dynamicly driven business websites.

Financials:

In the last 12 months we have invoiced for £2500 for hosting and domain registrations/renewals.

Domains:

98% of our customers domains are registered through us, and are held within a 123-reg.co.uk account the minority however have purchased the domains elsewhere and point their nameservers at our dns servers.

DNS:

An external company run our nameservers on a geographically diverse server farms. We are in the process of migrating this back in house however as we migrate clients to the new server.

Other products:

In addition to the core business of hosting, we also offer a spam filtering solution which is provisioned by pointing a clients mx record to an external company who then return the filtered mail to our server for our clients to pickup. At this time we do not offer, VPS servers, dedicated servers or ADSL broadband although these are all areas our clients have asked if we can provide. This could be an avenue a new owner could investigate.

Support:

Typically we offer a 24 hour response to our clients via the ticketing system. They are all happy and used to this, we have not over promised on response times.

What's included in the sale?:

The server lease.
The 123-reg account
The domain names. (.net,.co.uk, org.uk, and .biz
The clients
A new website design template
AWBS license
excel invoice manager license.
Full paper records of the clients from the moment they setup their account.
Full phone and email support for a changeover period of 3 months. More if required.

Timescale:

The timescale for the sale is very flexible. If the right buyer comes along and makes an acceptable offer we are happy to sell straight away. If for any reason you wish to delay the sale, we are happy to continue running the company but a deposit will be required.

How to proceed:

Any interested parties should contact me via pm or via webhostingtalk@dewetha.co.uk (please note dewetha.co.uk is not the web host for sale) I will then provide any further information requested. Please provide your own contact details and also details of any existing web host that you own including amount of clients, name of firm etc. I want to ensure that I sell to a company/person who is capable of running the server and supporting the clients as I know some of the clients personally and want them to continue to get a good quality of service.

I will post a further post within this thread in a few days time with the closing date of any offers.

I hope I have included enough information to get some people interested but all comments and questions are welcome (NDA may be required for detailed answers but I can certainly provide guideline information easily.

I hope to speak to a few of you soon.

Regards,

Charlie

[Dewetha]

Hi guys,

All sold now - sorry.

Charlie

[weldo]

Originally Posted by Dewetha

Hi guys,

All sold now - sorry.

Charlie

you mean Hi 'guy' ....

[andyf]

Charlie, please let us know what was final deal closed for?
If you remember even i had contacted you and had mailed you signed NDA but there was not much response from you.