Thers is a free hosting community for sale at SitePoint. The URL is stormloader.com and stormpages.com. The community is very community is very old since it’s established back in 1999.
Seller describes the community as: “Free hosting community with over 200,000 members. A user signs up for free, then can build a website. Completely automated software. It runs by itself.”
Seller states that there is a revenue of $4000 to $6000 monthly from Adsense and YPN placed on the member sites. The traffic is also pretty high with 4 - 5 million monthly pageviews, which comes from members promoting their websites.
The community is for sale with a price of $70.000 - not an auction.
Tags: free hosting, hosting community, free hosting website for sale
April 6th, 2006
I honestly believe that there is too many webmaster communities for sale at the moment. There is like a new one up for sale every day. And almost everyone of them are very small with few visitors, members, posts, articles etc.
Why do some people create these, and why is there other ones buying these, when there is already a lot of large and very popular webmaster communities? It is really hard to bring something new to this area, and almost just as hard to create something as good. To succeed in creating a good, large and profitable webmaster community you would have to be blessed with some amazing marketing skills.
I think that the main reason for this, is that most of the people creating websites are into webmastering. So it is the obvious thing for them to create since they know about it. The people buying these communities are probably in the exact same situation.
This is what I found of webmaster communities for sale, by browsing about 10 days back in some forums.
And then there is this thread where someone wants to buy such forums for their userbase - which makes it pretty clear that it is hard to market such a site and get users. But this guy might be on to something - in some cases it is cheaper and easier to buy other sites to merge with your own than through organic growth.
But as stated I believe there is too many of them for sale. But they are certainly not the only kind of sites that there are too many of being for sale. I also see small image hosting and arcade sites for sale almost everyday.
Tags: webmaster, web development, webmaster community
February 27th, 2006
An image hosting network with three different sites is for sale at SitePoint.
The sites are:
oniva.com - previously myphotospace.com
myphotodrive.com
afreeimagehost.com
The seller wants $45,000 for the sites, which I find rather high. First of all, the price is around 2 years of profit. Another reason for why the price to be too high, is that the revenue has been dropping a bit over the last year. So could anyone really expect to earn back their investment in a reasonable time? I’m not sure - I wouldn’t take the chance.
Tags: image hosting, picture hosting, online investment
January 27th, 2006
