Ryan (current administrator of LovingTech.net) wishes to step down as admin and therefore sell LovingTech. Forum has around 40000 posts and 5500 threads. There are 2000+ registered members in the forum. You can bid at Flippa:

$1426 REV – 40,000 POSTS! Bespoke Webmaster / Tech Forums BIG PROFITS TO BE MADE

More details about LovingTech:

[1] Google PageRank: 3
[2] Alexa Rank: 170,575
[3] Links in Google: 42
[4] Links in Yahoo: 12,607
[5] Listed in DMOZ directory
[6] Claimed Traffic: Page Views Per Month – 40000, Unique Per Month – 10000

Why this forum is a great opportunity?

- Financially rewarding topic/subject
- Fantastic content, rich niche

How will the site make money?

- Adverts sold on a per-forum basis
- “Sticky thread” advertisements
- Contextual advertising
- Text links

Sticky threads are forum threads that the user has paid a fixed price per month to have their thread sticky.

Imagine a marketplace where everyone will go out of their neck to get best coverage and thus pay extra. Unfortunately LovingTech never looked for advertisers as it was a non-profit site, but they privately asked LovingTech to which it made sense to cover any costs we had. Please refer to the main revenue section.

You can place your bid at Flippa

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cPanel, the leading Web hosting control panel software provider, has released their beta product Enkompass for Windows Server 2008. Enkompass installs on one IIS7 Server and reaches out to host web sites on multiple web servers, mail servers and database servers and we can add servers easily to expand our capacity.

cPanel is planning to provide almost all features which are currently available in cPanel/WHM. They have not committed however. Below are the expected features of Enkompass:

Administrator/Reseller Interface Features:

[1] Server configuration
- Admin Password
- Tweak Settings
- Manage Servers

[2] Support
- Support Center

[3] Reseller
- Reseller Center
- Show Reseller Accounts

[4] Languages
- Clone/Create a New Language
- Upload a Language File
- Download/Delete a Language File

[5] Backup
- Configure Backup
- Restore Backups

[6] Account information
- List Accounts
- List Parked Domains
- List Subdomains

[7] Account functions
- Create a New Account
- Modify an Account
- Password Modification
- Quota Modification
- Suspend Unsuspend Accounts
- Terminate an Account
- Restart Users Websites

[8] Multi – Account Functions
- Modify/Upgrade Multiple Accounts
- Terminate Multiple Accounts

[9] Plans
- Add Plans
- Edit/Delete Plans
- Copy plans

[10] DNS Functions
- Add DNS Zone
- Delete a Zone
- Edit MX entry
- Park a Domain

[11] MySQL Services
- Change a MySQL User Password
- Check/Repair a Database

[12] MS SQL Services
- Change a MS SQL User Password
- Repair a MS SQL Database

[13] IP Functions
- Add a New IP Address
- Show IP Address Usage
- Show/Delete current IPs
- Add Reserved IPs
- Edit/Delete Reserved IPs

[14] System Health
- Current CPU Usage
- Current Disk Usage
- Current Running Processes

[15] Themes
- Clone Theme

[16] cPanel
- Modify WHM News

[17] Server SSL / TLS
- Generate/Request a SSL Certificate
- Install a SSL Certificate
- Activate a SSL Certificate
- Manage FTP Bindings

End user features:

[1] Preferences
- Getting Started Wizard
- Change User Password
- Update Contact Info
- Change Language
- Branding Editor
- Change Style
- Shortcuts

[2] Mail
- Submit a Support Request
- Email Accounts
- Log into Webmail
- Mail Forwarders
- Auto Responders
- Default Address
- Mailing Lists
- MX Entry

[3] Files
- Restore System Backups
- User Backups
- File Manager
- Disk Space Usage
- FTP Accounts

[4] Logs
- Latest Visitors

[5] Security
- Password Protect Directories
- IP Deny Manager
- SSL/TLS Manager

[6] Domains
- Sub Domains
- Addoon Domains
- Parked Domains
- Redirect Pages

[7] Databases
- Create MySQL Database
- Manage MySQL User
- Create MS SQL Database
- Manage MS SQL Users

[8] Advanced
- MIME Types
- Error Pages
- Directory Browsing
- Network Tools
- WebHost Manager
- Restart Websites

For more details, you may visit this article.

Kailash Aghera

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Smartertools has released Smartermail 6.x with some new features. Smartermail is widely used mail server software in web hosting field. Some the features of Smartermail 6 are:

- SmarterMail 6.x provides businesses and hosting environments with powerful enterprise-level features and collaboration tools, including:

- Smartphone synchronization through Exchange ActiveSync, SyncML, and SmarterMail Sync technologies

- 97% antispam out-of-the-box that delivers comprehensive protection from spam and phishing messages

- Advanced Outlook synchronization and collaboration

- Robust antivirus out-of-the-box that prevents costly downtime

- Detailed reporting at the server, domain, and mailbox levels to provide insight into mail server performance

- Events and notifications that help simplify and automate tasks

- Advanced message archiving compliant with Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA regulations

- Leading Web-based interface for administrators and users

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ICANN accredited registrar, Enom Inc. announced, in a presentation at HostingCon, that it has launched its new RichContent service, a subscription service designed to provide website operators with article, blog and video content to supplement their existing site content.

The service, available as a reseller service to resellers of eNom’s web hosting and domain registration services, as well as to hosting providers that don’t resell eNom’s other services, provides website operators with access to an enormous base of content that can be inserted into their own sites via a selection of widgets.

The objective of the service, says Sheridan, is to enable hosting providers to offer their customers a means of better engaging visitors to their sites, creating more successful projects among hosting customers.

“If we do our job right,” says Sheridan, “this is so easy and such a good end user experience that, basically, the compelling content will drive enough end user engagement that I want to start seeing a lift on hosting renewals.”

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Yahoo GeoCities is closing on October 26, 2009. Today, I have received following email from them:

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Dear Yahoo! UK & Ireland GeoCities customer,

We’re writing to let you know that Yahoo! UK & Ireland GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.

We have enjoyed hosting web sites created by Yahoo! users all over the world, and we’re proud of the community you’ve built. However, we have decided to focus on helping our customers explore and build relationships online in other ways.

On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.

What You Need to Do
If you’re no longer using your web site, you don’t need to do a thing, but if you’d like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you’ve posted online, you need to act now by downloading your files to your own computer.

To quickly download your published files and images, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As… from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save to save the HTML and images associated with your page. Learn more about downloading your files.

With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider you like, such as BT Web Hosting.

Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable. If you’d like to save your files, you must download them now.

Another Way to Connect Online
As a Yahoo! customer, you can now use your Yahoo! profile as a central point to manage your identity, activities, and interests across Yahoo! and make it easy to connect and share with the people who matter to you most.

You can get started anytime by adding your picture and other personal details, then invite friends and family to connect — even start your own blog. You’ll be able to follow the online activities of your connections across Yahoo!.

Setting up your profile is easy, and it’s free! Visit your profile now.

Don’t Wait
We encourage you to save your files now. If you need assistance, please visit the help centre.

We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! UK & Ireland services.

Best regards,

The Yahoo! UK & Ireland GeoCities team
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Fortunately, I do not have any important data on it but if you are using Yahoo GeoCities, you will need to download all your pages and images before they close this service.

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You might have received the following email in your inbox if you are using Yahoo! 360°:
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Dear Yahoo! 360° customer,

The Yahoo! Profile Team
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Yes, Yahoo is going to close Yahoo 360 service from July 13, 2009 onwards. If you have any information on Yahoo 360 then make sure to save or download your existing 360 information before this date to keep from losing it.

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Software major Microsoft is in discussions to buy the online search business of Yahoo for about $20 billion, media report says. A few months back, Yahoo had spurned a takeover bid from Microsoft worth more than $47 billion.

“Software giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion . The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo. But there is no intention of Microsoft tabling another takeover bid for the web giant, after its aborted $47.5-billion offer this summer,”

The Sunday Times has reported. According to the report, it is thought that Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team. “Senior directors at Microsoft and Yahoo are understood to have agreed the broad terms of a deal, but there is no guarantee that it will succeed,” the publication said in a report published online on Sunday.

The Sunday Times said that under the terms of the proposed transaction, Microsoft would provide a $5billion facility to the Miller and Levinsohn management team. The duo would raise an additional $5-billion from external investors.

This cash would be used to buy convertible preference shares and warrants which would give it a holding in excess of 30 per cent of Yahoo, the report noted. “The external investors would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo’s 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business. It would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content service,” The Sunday Times reported.

The report added that it is expected that the operating agreement would boost Yahoo’s income by as much as $2 billion per annum. Interestingly, the Microsoft buyout offer had valued Yahoo shares at $33 per piece and ever since the scrip has plunged to below nine dollars.

The takeover bid was mainly opposed by Yahoo’s chief executive Jerry Yang, who earlier this month announced his decision to step down from the post but would remain a part of the company. Further, Yang, who is also the co-founder, had been pinning hopes on an advertising deal with Google but the deal fell through mainly due to regulatory concerns.

Even though Microsoft and Yahoo remain profitable, both companies are way behind Google on the web. “Over half the $40-billion plus online-advertising market comes from internet-search ads, and analysts estimate Google has about 77 per cent of spending compared with Yahoo’s 18 per cent and Microsoft’s five per cent,” the report said.

Original Source: business-standard.com

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