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[scab_dog]

OK, first of all i dont want OpaQue to sell Xisto. And i know he wont. This just came into my mind while reading a recent topic by OpaQe.

How much would Xisto be worth? When sold, considering the advertisements and the size of the community, how much would it be worth?

I'm no businessman and i have no idea or even a guess how much the business would be worth.

[Johnny]

I have no idea how much internet companies would be worth, but I'm willing to guess a few thousand, judging by Trap17's popularity and standings on search engines. And the large member base we have already.

[Kubi]

Well lets see, how much does he pay monthly, a couple hundred I suppose(just a guess), first if someone wanted to by Xisto they'd have to buy OpaQue out with the monthly payments he's made. Which adds up to thousands itself. Then the popularity. Xisto itself is comprised of many parts;
Trap17.com
Trap17.net
ComputingHost.com
Xisto.com
And that new TopSites program we have
ANNND the upcoming banner exchange site(hopefully coming soon).

So that's a lot to buy. The work, popularity, all the counter-parts.

I suppose Xisto is worth quite a bit. Go OpaQue!

[Albus Dumbledore]

yeah it probably is worth a ton of money, now im nowhere near knowing how much websites are worth... but i would say he could sell all of the sites, for over $50k ($50,000) and maybe near 100k (100,000) because if the buyers think that the company will bring them in allot of money in the future, it may ebe worth paying that much....

but OpaQue would never quit on us like that....

[OpaQue]

Obviously not ;-)

ComputingHost is the key.. I don't know bout the rest ;-) All sites basically target for more marketting and getting more members so that ComputingHost is happy :-). Because, if CH is happy, it makes sure, all other Xisto Sites are happy :-D

[Albus Dumbledore]

yeah computinghost is basicly the key because you offer all of these free hosting sites, and members realize that their site got too popular for a free host and they switched to computing host, which they hope was just as good as the free hosting xisto site that they were at...

[Plenoptic]

Well I've seen people try to copy Trap17 and you can't forget AstaHost. I think if anything they would just like to buy out just Computing Host and pay for advertisements instead on Trap and Astahost because it would be cheaper. You never know what would happen if Xisto would be put up for sale.

[scab_dog]

talking about copying trap17, you would be surprised on how many low level cheap rip of sites that have copied trap17. I haven been to few websites, which offer free web-hosting if you make several posts and so on. OpaQue should sue them, make money that a way .

I did more research there was this guy who started a similar forum like this, well not with hosting, just a forum it was on GTA Vic City Mods/Hacks. And a organization bought it for 40K. This was on a blog, codenamevice.co.uk . Imagine, a simple forum with busy traffic made 40K, Xisto owns 2 VERY busy forums. A profit making web hosting site. And upcoming Banner Exchange projects. If OpaQue does sell it, and if some one does buy it. He would be a bit wealthier than he is now. A bit more than a bit.

But as everyone said, OpaQue would never let us down.

[Albus Dumbledore]

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But as everyone said, OpaQue would never let us down.

wlel you never know, he might... because i heard buffaloHELP say that if trap17 goes dowsn the drain (less members, and the ads arent being clicked etc) that OpaQue will just have to say buh bye to trap17, i also heard BuffaloHELP say that there have been a few times where OpaQue had to pay for somthing on the site out of his own pocktet.. which some people may say well thats an admins job! but thats also the job of the members, to <- snipped -> to give him money, so he can upgrade the servers to which our excelent free webhosting is provided, also to upgrade computinghosts...}

[Johnny]

I think OpaQue will sell Xisto or hand it over to another admin or something eventually, I mean, he can't really work on this place forever. But I think it's safe to say OpaQue will be taking care of this place for a long time.

@scab_dog -- There are a lot of "post to host" forums out there, and I'm sure Trap17 wasn't the first one, so I doubt they could be copying us. I think Plenoptic was talking more of literal copies, like the exact same look/rules/guidelines/etc.

[Dragonfly]

I really don't know how much worth Xisto is but I'm sure it is a very profitable company. Otherwise, how could they give away quality hosting which could have fetch hundreds of dollars all for free. I understand that this step may be important for customer confident building measures but many companies don't do that. So, my simple understanding is that Xisto may be much more worth than most of the members have said in the previous posts.

That's my take.

[Galahad]

I also believe that Trap17 is worth much more, than a couple of thousand... I would put it at couple hundred thousand (around 500K)... Trap has very large network of users, and stable and reliable servers keep paying customers with them... As soon as I am able to pay for hosting, I'm switching to ComputingHost, but I'll remain active here too... This is a great compunity, and we should all try and make it even better...

I'm with Trap17 for a long time, and I'm very, very, VERY, happy

[apurva]

yeah even i have seen sites copying trap17 but dont have that excellance to do it.
but johnny has surely got the point trap17 wasnt the fist to "post for host" its just that Opaque has done it very efficiently