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Established Free Web Host
The leading free web hosting service is looking for a new owner!
http://www.free-space.net/
Auction
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- Bid History:
- 2 Bids (0 Pending)
- Listed:
- Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:07:13 GMT
Accepted Payment Methods: PayPal
Description
Interested parties should contact me via email or MSN as soon as possible with questions before submitting an offer. I will be looking to hand this over to a new owner as soon as possible. As soon as the right person offers the right money, this sale will close. I look forward to hearing from you and I anticipate a lot of interest.
Site URL: http://tinyurl.com/6ghp33
Sale includes many valuable assets and the full complete operation (Bracket figures indicate specific price I paid):
1. Exclusive, unique, fantastic website design (Designed by 4design.tv, over 1200USD)
2. Web design integrated with iPanel, Chat script, and vBulletin
3. vBulletin fundamental skin originally by Forummonkeys.com (Brand-free, 50USD+), modified & integrated by myself.
4. Active web forum (VB License is not included)
5. Flash live person by livefaceonweb.com viewable on homepage (259.99 USD)
6. Domains: http://tinyurl.com/5e4vb5
7. iPanel owned license (99.95 USD)
8. 16,200 + Free hosted members
9. Involved dedicated server leases will be transferred to you at the current provider.
10. I will assist the new owner as much as possible for a smooth takeover.
All the Assets and Components of this website.
Web design: Paid 1200 USD + Logo, banners designs ~ 120 USD
Top premium domains (Main domain shot up to PR4 just recently)
IPanel license: 80 USD
Advertising - over 1000 USD spent
VBulletin license not included
16200 + Free hosted sites + Server well setup for free hosting
Active community board (even a facebook group)
Strong daily traffic
Why selling?
Personally, I do not wish to sell. But I am a very busy guy with a lot on the plate at the moment. This site has been a wonderful experience but I feel I have to let it go and concentrate more on my college work, personal and professional life. This site is thriving and the service has been totally positive in every sector. There is nothing negative about this site/service you should know about. I am hiding nothing. The new owner will be a very lucky person indeed. If I don't find a buyer maybe I will continue.
Traffic
Without revealing all my secrets in public, the site is listed in all the major and important free web hosting directories and recently started gaining stumble traffic as well as all the help from our kind users who decided to link us from their websites. The word of mouth is also a very strong tool at the moment. We currently average between 1200 and 1800 visits per day, around 30,000 unique visitors a month. Some traffic screens below.
2008 so far, overview: http://tinyurl.com/6oqkh9
August so far: http://tinyurl.com/5zxjuu
July day by day: http://tinyurl.com/6rtojt
June day by day: http://tinyurl.com/5vnszt
May day by day: http://tinyurl.com/6el2de
April day by day: http://tinyurl.com/59rn9t
March day by day: http://tinyurl.com/6rmet4
Domains
http://tinyurl.com/367vby
The above link lists the domains included.
Web Design
Viewable at the address, the web design is totally custom and completely unique. This was a costly web design from 4design.tv. Obviously I currently own the complete full rights to this web design and its files. This right will be passed onto you and you would be its sole rightful owner. All the original template files + my edits and script integrations, as well as the current website is included. You will also get some banner graphics which I've paid to be done.
Clients Management (IPanel)
IPanel handles the signup process as well as providing the clients with an account management area. As an admin it would be your job to check and approve new signups. (I currently have kind volunteer staff members who assist) Since March we had around 40,000 signups for the free plan but only 16200+ have been accepted and are active. (goes to show the level of security we standardized) IPanel license is an owned license and costs 80 USD. This owned license of mine will be transferred to you in full. We currently receive around 120 to 150 signups each day.
IPanel stats: http://tinyurl.com/6jvr8b
Signup stats: http://tinyurl.com/66n5yt
Web Community Board
Just have a look around. We ask members to signup to our forums during their signup process. We provide all support help via the forums. It has proven hugely popular and despite us not being a post2host (we do not force users to post) we, since its launch have around 14000+ registered users at the forums with upto 150 registered users being online everyday. To really have a feel of what our service is about I would suggest you read around all the topics in our forums. You will be impressed.
The board runs on 1 vbulletin board license. This license is ineligible for transfer because it has not been 1 year since its transfer yet.
Web Community Chatroom
The fun part, we have some regular users in our community chatroom. It runs off FlashChat123, which is a hosted license. (They host it for you) It costs 30 USD per month, via monthly paypal subscription. You will have to deal with this if you wish to keep the chatroom open.
Server hosting the clients
Currently we have 3 servers hosting the members. 2 at Dedicatednow.com and 1 at Burst.net. They are Pentium4 (99.95USD), Celeron 1.7 (69.95USD), Celeron 3.06(69.90USD) respectively, all with cPanel. We also have a third party software: RVSiteBuilder which many clients found useful. You will have to buy the leased license yourself it costs very little each month (couple bucks). The server will be transferred to your ownership.
Running the free host service
As we explained above, we have some wonderful tools and resources to help you run this host, and a lot of money and efforts have been invested. Even if you aren't a seasoned hosting pro, with the right learning mind and intuition you would be able to run this website effectively. You would also need to know how to manage a web community. We currently have a team of staff, what you do with this will be totally up to you naturally. You may ask me to stay in this team to help you settle in for a month or two. All in all, I will help the new owner to the best I can. You would take over one of the most prominent free hosts today with a fast growing community and reputation.
Questions and submitting your offers
You can PM me for questions or contact me on IM (in profile):
Minimum offer: 2,500 USD
Asking price: 6,300 USD
My suggestion: Ask your questions and submit your best offer if you are seriously interested in buying, once a reasonable offer is made I will accept it.
Revenue Details
Income and Revenue
This depends entirely on your plans and what you do with all the assets it currently has. The large part of the benefits I personally received from this host was the referral to the premium plans of my other brand. But these are not included obviously.
The new owner may wish to try the HostGator referral program (or any other), or simply sell adspace and I would guess you would gain a lot of income from this. It's about what and how you offer and the presentation of it. We have here an outstanding free web host service which not only gives a good service, but looks good and professional. The possibilities with income and revenue you have are simply endless.
On our main website we have google ads up in various places, this has also been a quite successful, bringing in around 400 USD each month since its launch. I've just finished tweaking the locations of adsense, so far it's looking good. Stats proof available upon request.
Traffic Details
Traffic
Without revealing all my secrets in public, the site is listed in all the major and important free web hosting directories and recently started gaining stumble traffic as well as all the help from our kind users who decided to link us from their websites. The word of mouth is also a very strong tool at the moment. We currently average between 1200 and 1800 visits per day, around 30,000 unique visitors a month. Some traffic screens below.
Questions 7 public, 2 deleted
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- Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:34:00 GMT
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- Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:34:48 GMT
Please PM google income proof.
Thank you.
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- Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:08:38 GMT
http://www.cubestat.com/www.free-space.net
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- Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:32:50 GMT
Please PM monthly expense cost and google income proof.
Thank you.
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- Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:27:20 GMT
The sale is still open. Sitepoint is not helpful and refusing to reopen this auction, the BIN offer seems a fraud at the moment.
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