The whole shebang
The most straightforward option when putting your web hosting business for sale is a full acquisition. We pay you, take over your servers, and work together to ensure a smooth transition for your customers, usually starting with an email announcement and followed by personalized phone outreach. We handle the bulk of the transition work; you simply say a professional goodbye and reassure clients they’re in good hands.
This type of sale involves purchasing all of your company’s assets (excluding debt and, depending on the situation, items like real estate). If your web hosting business operates from a leased space or includes side ventures, such as a drone photography business, we can work with you to separate or exclude those from the sale.
In most cases, we maintain your brand identity and website. After all, your reputation in the marketplace is part of what makes your web hosting company for sale valuable, and why many owners researching how to sell web hosting choose a full acquisition.
in chunks
If you only want to sell hosting for some of the websites your company hosts, we are happy to buy them. The amount and type of website does not matter to us. We can give you an appraisal for the sites you want to sell. If you like our number, we have a deal.
It’s possible that you have “taken your company vertical.” You might have found a niche in creating websites for law firms, for example, and want to focus entirely on that market, regionally or nationally. Because of that shift, you would like to find a good home for your other sites. And there are other reasons for wanting to sell web hosting for some sites but not others.
It is a simple matter to identify each site that you have to offer, gather the financial information for those sites, and come to an agreement. Once this is done, we can coordinate a plan to communicate the change to these customers.
Keep in mind that customers have a choice in their own future. We have found that the best policy is to communicate thoroughly with each customer, in advance, even if you have them under contract. You want the best for your customers, and so do we, as they become our customers.
This option works well when hosting owners are transitioning part of their business and want to understand how to sell web hosting without parting with everything. It’s also ideal for anyone with a hosting company for sale but not ready to commit to a full exit.
or in small bites
This works well. Perhaps you are a one-person web shop that wants to focus on a specialty. You can sell hosting or transfer any hosting account that does not fit your vision, including new business coming in the door.
We learned about this option from a salesperson who inherited the remnants of a web hosting business. He had moved on, but still wanted to take good care of each customer because he had built a relationship with them. He wanted to sell us one customer at a time. After we agreed on a price and payment terms, he approached the first customer and explained what he was proposing. Each move went well, and his confidence quickly increased to where he could vouch for our professionalism. It took more than 2 years to transfer all of the sites, but we worked steadily around his schedule, and at a pace that was not jarring to the customers.
This turned out to be an excellent option for those navigating host selling, exploring how to sell web hosting, or searching for flexible ways to transition a hosting company for sale. It remains a strong choice for many other situations as well.
