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[mattbodley]

Hi,

I am the founder of http://www.youloveit.com

I am now selling the entire website (domain name, content, etc).

I have realized that it is just too difficult to try and maintain the website from another country (I'm in New Zealand now), especially as I am pretty busy with other work and university study.

This is a true �closing down sale�, meaning that, the website must be sold, for whatever price. If the sale price is above 500,000 won, then it is worth the effort on my part.

The website is a great opportunity for someone to add to their own site, or modify, or use for fun (e.g. parties etc), or anything. There are about 3000 registered users, with about 20 new registered users per week (these are the people that actually create an account). There are about 2500 UNIQUE USERS per month, about 5500 VISITORS PER MONTH. These figures exclude worms, robots etc and are actually accurate. Top countries are South Korea, United States, UK, NZ, Canada, and Japan.

This is a great opportunity for someone to use and create massive parties, recruit English teachers, add more traffic/content/subscribers to your existing site, etc, do anything you like � the code and content and domain are all yours! All written in PHP/MySQL, if you don�t know how to program on the web this is a good way to get started + changes can easily be made yourself.

If you need more information (e.g. more stats etc), just email me.

For those seriously interested people, please include your phone number, your purchase offer (in Korean won), plus any other relevant details in your email.

Get in quick! first in, first served!

[email protected]
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Skype: mattbodley1
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Regards,

Matt Bodley
Founder
www.youloveit.com

[dbee]

No offence dude, it's a nice site. But it's going to need maybe $1000 worth of programmer time to do anything with. I'm assuming a lot of it is going to have to be recoded to make sure it's efficient, extensible and secure.

That's on top of what you're going to need to pay for a designer if you don't want to use an off-the-shelf template ... which is out of the question anyway because it's a roll-your-own app.

What is your hosting plan costing you ?

How much money does it bring in ?

[mattbodley]

The site could be changed and adapted. There is no worries about being secure, the site has been coded to be maximally secure. The database is very extensible, everything is all there in a very easy to see way.

Good points about being extensible though, it would need to be modified somewhat if you wanted to radically change the current layout.

Programmers/designs can be found rather cheaply from somewhere like www.supportresort.com. $599 per month for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week of work! Similar for designers.

You would need a designer if you wanted to do your own stuff, but you wouldn't need a designer if you were to use off the shelf stuff like PHPBB, mambo, joomla, phpnuke, etc.

Hosting is with layeredtech.com, $50 a month.

It brings in $20-30 a month via google.

You raised some going points. There are different strokes for different folks, you could decide to change the whole layout of the site first, as you suggested.

OR, there is also the option that you could use it for recruitment, run massive parties etc. As it has a nice base of growing users, and the traffic is extremely stable.

The revenues from this is enormous, e.g. 10,000 won entry to a party multiplied by whatever, would get some nice dollars. Also, adaption of the personals, buy/sell to an auction deal etc could work.

There are tons of options, you can do whatever you want, you have the traffic and users to build on and help out, which is very hard to get for sites starting out (this has been online since 2003).

Contact me off list via email if you need a .zip with more traffic details.

And like I said before, think about it, and send in whatever offer you want, the site has to be sold!

It doesn't matter whether the offer is posted in the forum or via PM.

Ideally, I would like to sell it to someone who really wants to build it up, so I can look back in another couple of years and maybe join back in!

[superdave]

interesting offer ...

a question i'd like to ask is about the service provider. web developers, like myself, have their own service providers. so i'm hoping it's not a condition of the purchase that you have to pay for the hosting as well.

buying the domain, site design, mySQL database and all relevant files would be something people (myself included) would consider.

i wouldn't be prepared to cough up $50 a month for hosting it though.

one more query that perhaps you can answer via post (or if it's too private) via pm ... what kinda bandwidth you go through monthly?

cheers

david

[dbee]

Cool, yeah conincidentally I run a dedicated server on layeredtech as well.

The security doesn't seem too bad on it. I hope you didn't mind me checking a bit

The only thing that would worry me is that you are manipulating your database through your directory structure. I'm willing to take a wild guess and say that you're tables aren't anywhere near normal form ...

Unless someone wanted to wipe it an start again, I'd imagine that this would be outside the skill level of a starter programmer/webmonkey type ...

[dbee]

Cool, yeah conincidentally I run a dedicated server on layeredtech as well.

The security doesn't seem too bad on it. I hope you didn't mind me checking a bit

The only thing that would worry me is that you are manipulating your database through your directory structure. I'm willing to take a wild guess and say that you're tables aren't anywhere near normal form ...

Unless someone wanted to wipe it an start again, I'd imagine that this would be outside the skill level of a starter programmer/webmonkey type ...

[mattbodley]

Hi,

There are no service provider conditions at all. Currently its just hosted on the server on a month-by-month basis, but you can switch to anyone you want.

There are pretty cheap hosting providers around, I just randomly found it years ago and didn't bother changing.

So yeah, no contracts with anyone, no obligations at all, do whatever you want.

You can definitely just get the domain, site code, and mysql database and other files if you want, and not bother with the server, just use your own. No problem. I suspect that is what most people would do.

At the moment the bandwidth runs at about 4-5gig's a month. The current server has a limit of 1000gig's a month included in the $50 per month, so yeah, bandwidth is no problem.

Cheers,

Matt

[mattbodley]

The database tables are very space efficient, based on storing the information once. The message links and stuff are pretty straightforward.

It's very easy to export/import the files, you can convert them and load them into a phpbb database if you want.

Or adapt them if you want to load the page, the SQL statements are all there, all source code is there, nothing is encrypted or anything.

Converting the stuff into any format or adapting it wouldn't really require any skill at all, as the stuff is so obvious. That's of course, if the person wanted to convert it to another format. The same format could be used fine just as it is already, as it has been for years.