maritimer, I'm sorry to hear that you are quitting the business - with your very commendable ethic and thoughts for your clients, the hosting industry is taking a real loss. On the other hand, you do need to know when to call it a day: past a certain point, your life starts going out of balance, and it gets harder to provide the high level of service that drew your clients to you. They're less happy, you're definitely less happy...it becomes a lose-lose situation.

I'd like to hear your experiences in finding your customers new homes, if you're interested in sharing.

Best of luck to you wherever you go, whatever you do.

We aquired a small host a few months ago in a samiliar situation. Went very well. Well on our end at least. The person had zero records and it made it very hard on our end but we put some time into it and saved the users a lot of grief.

The key is to get someone who is real good at doing conversions and handling these things in the past. Otherwise you may wind up in a larger mess than you started with.

PS I agree that EBAY is no place to sell a hosting company. 90% of the people bidding don't know what they are bidding on. And clients definitely wouldn't appreciate being handed off to some one that doesn't know what they are doing.

Find a company that offers support equal to what you did or more. That may means a lower sale price. But its your duty to support those users.

maritimer have you found a new home for your clients?

This isn't the place to solicite business, Galaxy-Hosts.

Everyone who posted into this thread is likely to "want" his clients and could likely provide a great home.

If you're looking to purchase clients, there are advertisements in the ads forums.