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Free Unlimited Web - Free Hosting Business

6500+ Users, 3000+ Uniques Per Day + Large Forum

  • URL: http://www.freeunlimitedweb.com/
  • Established: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT
  • Page views/month: 1,000,000
  • Monthly Revenue (USD): 400
  • Google Pagerank: 3
  • Uniques/Month: 100,000
  • Listed: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:47:45 GMT

Description:

Hello,
Up for sale here is our free hosting business, Free Unlimited Web.
http://www.freeunlimitedweb.com
The primary reason we are selling is because our Google AdSense account was recently disabled (due to a Proxy Network we run, absolutely nothing to do with FUW and the domain is not banned) and therefore will have difficulty making further revenue with it. All you need to do is add your AdSense code and you'll be ready to go.
We were making $5-20 per day from Google AdSense, it varied quite a lot. Additionally we made some extra revenue from clients paying for ad removals and account upgrades. Unfortunately I have no way of proving the revenue because the account is disabled so I can't access stats.
We currently have over 6500+ users and an active forum with 250+ users and almost 2000 posts. There is a lot of potential here and you cannot fail to make money.

There's about 390GB disk space used. Although I know for a fact there's a load of junk and backups etc which you can get rid of.
As for bandwidth - 2TB per month.

Existing server costs $178 per month and can be kept if you want.

Also the sale includes the LayeredPanel license and template. The vBulletin license for the forum is leased so not sure if we can transfer that or not. I think you can't sell it but can transfer it, in which case we will do so.

Payment via PayPal or MoneyBookers.
Any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks.

Revenue Details:

Google AdSense ($5-20 per day) + Upgrade payments (around $100 per month).

Traffic Details:

75% comes from search engines.

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  1. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:03:28 GMT
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    Adsense was on the proxy website?

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  2. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:13:15 GMT
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    AdSense was on a seperate proxy network we ran which led to account being banned, not related to this. AdSense was being used on this project and made $5-20 per day, you can simply add your own.

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  3. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:34:46 GMT
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    What's the reserve?

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  4. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:34 GMT
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    Reserve is meant to be hidden correct? Confused as to why people are asking this.

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  5. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:57:42 GMT
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    Two questions:
    1) Where is hosted now?
    2) If I buy it we can arrange a transfer of the hosting account or not?

    Thanks

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  6. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:18:30 GMT
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    Nice auction, good luck!

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  7. Posted date:
    Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:30:25 GMT
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    1) Where is hosted now?

    >>> A dedicated server at SteadCom.

    2) If I buy it we can arrange a transfer of the hosting account or not?

    >>> The server can be transferred to you or alternatively you can transfer the data to one of your servers. It's your choice. I would probably keep the existing server though as it's very good value, well supported and will save quite a bit of hassle.

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  8. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:53:27 GMT
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    does the host offer a cheaper plan?there are many host sites that offer plans well below what your plan offers

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  9. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:38 GMT
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    reserve isn't always meant to be hidden... it let's bidders know where realistic bidding begins so an interested party can start the "real" auction.

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  10. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:01:36 GMT
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    jeffro241 - It's not a hosting plan, it's an entire dedicated server. The server is Quadcore Xeon 3323 with 4GB RAM, 2 X 500GB hard drives and unmetered 10mbit. I doubt you will find this much cheaper.

    jhf12 - OK, fair enough - the reserve is set at $1000.

    Thanks.

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  11. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:13:48 GMT
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    At 6500+ users is worth at least $6000. Why this so low price ?

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  12. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:45:42 GMT
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    smartcmcpp - I'm not entirely sure it's worth $6000 but it is worth more than what it's being listed here for, I'm looking for a quick sale.

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  13. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:56:03 GMT
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    the 100,000 unique per month traffic, is that to your main site? or does it include visitors to your free hosted sites?

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  14. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:35:14 GMT
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    aplusmedia - It includes visitors to the hosted sites.

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  15. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:36:56 GMT
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    I've received a $650 bid on another forum.

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  16. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:01:30 GMT
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    Please provide traffic sources stats

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  17. Posted date:
    Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:04:26 GMT
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    infite - here you go:

    Search Engines - 70.34%
    Referring Sites - 19.46%
    Direct Traffic - 10.20%

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  18. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:27:57 GMT
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    script is not working...tried creating two dummy accounts and never received a confirmation email

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  19. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:43:55 GMT
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    jhf12 - what email address did you signup with? Some providers may block the emails or put them in spam.

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  20. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:47:56 GMT
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    Current highest bid is $1000 on another forum. Auction ends in 4 hours.

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  21. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:54:03 GMT
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    did you have adsense on the user pages or just the main site?

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  22. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:20:58 GMT
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    AdSense was on both the main site, forum and all user sites.

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  23. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:24:31 GMT
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    Hi, just some questions...

    Can you give some example URLs of sites hosted by freeunlimitedweb.com please?

    Do you have any PayPal screenshots or proof for the upgrade payments?

    For LayeredPanel, is this version 2 that is currently out?

    I noticed that your pages are in .jsp, isn't LayeredPanel a PHP script?

    I can't see on Steadcom's website any dedicated server offering, do you have a link to this please?

    Thanks.

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  24. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:36:13 GMT
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    alanho

    "Can you give some example URLs of sites hosted by freeunlimitedweb.com please?"

    http://freeunlimitedweb.com/sites.jsp

    "Do you have any PayPal screenshots or proof for the upgrade payments?"

    Unfortunately the payments were done via 2CheckOut which I don't use anymore.

    "For LayeredPanel, is this version 2 that is currently out?"

    Version 2.1, the latest version.

    "I noticed that your pages are in .jsp, isn't LayeredPanel a PHP script?"

    I'm not sure I actually know the answer to this, the main site runs off jsp pages.

    "I can't see on Steadcom's website any dedicated server offering, do you have a link to this please?"

    They no longer offer dedicated servers to the public, I have a special deal with them.

    Thanks.

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  25. Posted date:
    Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:50:27 GMT
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    Site sold at $1250, pending payment from buyer.

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    Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:11:26 GMT
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    Payment and signed sales agreement was received from buyer yesterday and thus concludes this sale. Thanks for everyones interest and bids.

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