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Established Web Host VPS Provider For Sale Annual Income 37k

Looking for a quick sale, low BIN.

http://epicvps.com/

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Bid History:
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Listed:
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:32:13 GMT

Accepted Payment Methods: Escrow.com

Description

Hi guys,

It is with a heavy heart that I am listing my VPS Hosting company http://is.gd/1mo1 for sale.

I really had no intention of selling this, but I am forced to sell because I am a full time student, and my course is so stressful that balancing both is becoming nearly impossible for me to do.

Even though we are just more than 4 months old in the VPS hosting business, we're already regarded as a good provider, and have a handful of reviews in favor of our service.

According to reports, the estimated annual income is nearly $38,000.

However, these are the outgoing costs for the 5 server nodes we currently operate with (Figures from July 2008) :

1 x Node + Internal cPanel/DA Licenses for that node : $664/mo

1xNode + Internal Licenses : $379/mo

1xNode : $272/mo

1xNode : $339/mo

1xNode + Internal Licenses : $232/mo

External cPanel Licenses : ~ $250/mo

So Net Monthly Profit = ~ $1500/mo

This also includes a couple of lifetime internal DirectAdmin VPS licenses which have already been paid for.

We have a total of 157 active clients at the moment.

 

The sale would also come with the following :

Domain registered at NameCheap.com (Till 2013)

SSL License

Custom logo by ypson.com

Custom Website design integrated into Wordpress

PHPLive Chat license

vBulletin owned license

WHMCS Monthly license

If you have any questions, or if you'd like further information please contact me via PM and I'd be glad to answer them.

Revenue Details

Monthly Income

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8969/epicmonthlyyq6.gif

Annual Recurring Income

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8557/epicannualkn2.gif

 

Traffic Details

Traffic comes from word of mouth and forums such as WHT, DP, Namepros, Sitepoint, Webmaster-Talk etc.

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Questions 31 public, 0 deleted

  1. Avatar for Rob T
    Posted by:
    Rob T (+6)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:56:36 GMT

    Hello,

    I'm very interested. A few quick questions to start with.

    1 - Is your hardware owned or rented?

    2 - Can you break down how much of the costs noted above are for hosting/colo and how much is for licenses?

    3 - Can you give me an idea of the typical bandwidth usage on your servers?

    4 - It appears that the only payment option you offer is Paypal. Are your customers on subscriptions, or do they have to pay manually each month? If you are using subscriptions, how will you transfer those subscriptions over to the new owner?

    I'll likely get back to you with more questions as I do additional research. Thanks!

  2. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:14:23 GMT

    Rob, I have PM'ed you the answers.

  3. Avatar for Sammy3115
    Posted by:
    Sammy3115 (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:17:10 GMT

    hi there, im very interested too please can you email me the exact total costs on a monthly bassis & the net profit.

    please can you also tell me the day to day duties that need to be done in order to maintain the website?
    thank you.

  4. Avatar for Sammy3115
    Posted by:
    Sammy3115 (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:18:22 GMT

    & please can you also PM me the same info as requested by Rob T?
    thank you.

  5. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:40:36 GMT

    Details have been sent to everyone who had requested them.

  6. Avatar for choice1
    Posted by:
    choice1 (-5)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:39:19 GMT

    Can I get answers to Rob's questions.
    Can you provide proof of clients on these ips?

  7. Avatar for james0822
    Posted by:
    james0822 (+6)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:19:15 GMT

    Interested -
    Can you PM details of your customer account age, expenses, and answers to Rob T's questions.
    Thank you-

  8. Avatar for TaylorH
    Posted by:
    TaylorH (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:30:32 GMT

    Could I also get this information please:

    Hello,

    I'm very interested. A few quick questions to start with.

    1 - Is your hardware owned or rented?

    2 - Can you break down how much of the costs noted above are for hosting/colo and how much is for licenses?

    3 - Can you give me an idea of the typical bandwidth usage on your servers?

    4 - It appears that the only payment option you offer is Paypal. Are your customers on subscriptions, or do they have to pay manually each month? If you are using subscriptions, how will you transfer those subscriptions over to the new owner?

    I'll likely get back to you with more questions as I do additional research. Thanks!

    Also:

    Are the majority of clients on a monthly basis or what term length are they on?

    Is traffic solely from forums/WOM? Or are there other advertising avenues?

    How many new clients are you receiving per month?

    How many are you losing?

    Thank you!

  9. Avatar for promenademan
    Posted by:
    promenademan (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:01:40 GMT

    please forward all details

    thanks

  10. Avatar for chris07
    Posted by:
    chris07 (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:25:38 GMT

    Id like the following details also please

  11. Avatar for gcxx
    Posted by:
    gcxx (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:37:33 GMT

    i am also very interested,, please send me all the details.

  12. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:41:29 GMT

    Details have been sent via PM to each one of you.

  13. Avatar for eron19
    Posted by:
    eron19 (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:02:59 GMT

    can I have the answers to those questions too.

  14. Avatar for drfoxxx
    Posted by:
    drfoxxx (+2)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:38:32 GMT

    how did you pull so many clients in your first month - april?

  15. Avatar for chris07
    Posted by:
    chris07 (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:25:49 GMT

    What is the Total cost per month?
    I see the breakdown, is the total $2136 costs? for the 5 nodes?
    The $1500 profit is projected from last month's sales, im guessing, on total re occuring monthly subscriptions.
    What has been the dropout rate for accounts in the last 4 months.
    PMe details, and to my other message in your PM box. Thanks!

  16. Avatar for thirdrailholding
    Posted by:
    thirdrailholding (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:34:28 GMT

    hello, could you please pm me the same details from the above - i'd like to understand a complete break down (total licenses) for cpanel, vs the others.

    How exactly did you get this many vps customers in such short time (i.e. is there a monthly ADVERTISING cost we are not seeing in these numbers above?).

    Could you provide details on the exact vps technology (openvz, or virtouzzo or xen, etc). Sounds like virtouzzo based on your costs.

    thanks

  17. Avatar for thirdrailholding
    Posted by:
    thirdrailholding (+3)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:35:07 GMT

    also would you mind verifying site access on this auction? Still says 'no' on verification.

  18. Avatar for StuntPope
    Posted by:
    StuntPope (+5)
    Date:
    Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:59:30 GMT

    I'd like the same answers please, is the hardware owned or rented? Also, having just gone through this, Paypal will not transfer subscriptions so will you work with the buyer to transfer subscription payments to them on an ongoing basis?

    thx

  19. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:50:30 GMT

    @drfoxx - Our pricing is extremely competitive and initially a few people just wanted to signup to see how the service was, and they liked it and it has since then spread by word of mouth on forums such as WebHostingTalk.

    @thirdrailholding : I'm unable to verify the site access since I'm cloaking the actual URL. You can however take a look at this http://is.gd/1nSS

  20. Avatar for chris07
    Posted by:
    chris07 (+3)
    Date:
    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:58:37 GMT

    can you pm me pixeldawn

  21. Avatar for davidkessel
    Posted by:
    davidkessel (+3)
    Date:
    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:04:10 GMT

    1 x Node + Internal cPanel/DA Licenses for that node : $664/mo

    1xNode + Internal Licenses : $379/mo

    1xNode : $272/mo

    1xNode : $339/mo

    1xNode + Internal Licenses : $232/mo

    External cPanel Licenses : ~ $250/mo

    That makes the monthly income about $1031, not $1500. Please clarify.

  22. Avatar for thirdrailholding
    Posted by:
    thirdrailholding (+3)
    Date:
    Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:38:17 GMT

    no pm was received, please send me the complete details as well as my questions above.

  23. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:09:57 GMT

    @davidkessel : The net spending comes out to $2100, and the income was $3600. $3600 - $2100 = $1500.

  24. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:36:53 GMT

    Details have been sent via PM to everyone.

  25. Avatar for Raiden
    Posted by:
    Raiden (+5)
    Date:
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:09:24 GMT

    Please send me all details via PM.

  26. Avatar for thirdrailholding
    Posted by:
    thirdrailholding (+3)
    Date:
    Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:13:37 GMT

    Hello, a general follow up question ( i think everyone would need to know to up their bid(s) so I want just pm it this time ) - you show $3600 income in july, but $1000 less in the previous 3 months. Could you break down total customers for those 4 motnhs (i.e. today you say 157 customers, what was it just 60 days ago when revenue was $1k less). What contributed to that big jump for July (annual payments? NEW clients?). It's a big difference if people are going to try to give you a valuation multiple to offer a fair price based on your expenses (i.e. it sounds like you are looking for a multiple mainly based on July's income to projecet annual sales).

    Thanks

  27. Avatar for pixeldawn
    Posted by:
    pixeldawn (+8)
    Date:
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:01:38 GMT

    Hi,

    Well, I've just added a screenshot that shows the number of signups each month, so you can see that there was an increase in the number of signups in July in comparison to June. However, you'll also notice that May had more signups, although lesser income, which was due to the fact that we were still very new and people just signed up for the smallest plan we had, whereas by July we had a few decent reviews by people on our service. Also, I believe there was a client who signed up on a yearly basis as well, which boosted the earnings.

    It's not entirely true that I am looking to sell only on the basis of July's earnings, my reserve is close to the average monthly earnings and I'm very reasonable.

  28. Avatar for nstrum
    Posted by:
    nstrum (+1)
    Date:
    Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:16:27 GMT

    Please email me the information as requested above.

  29. Avatar for ramprage
    Posted by:
    ramprage (+3)
    Date:
    Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:02:21 GMT

    Please PM me with the answers to the first posters questions.

  30. Avatar for delta4
    Posted by:
    delta4 (+5)
    Date:
    Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:19:42 GMT

    I am very interested on this site. Can you also pm me with all previous answers?

    thanks!

  31. Avatar for jack12344
    Posted by:
    jack12344 (+1)
    Date:
    Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:13:49 GMT

    I am also very interested but would like to see details first, please send me pm.

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