Yippie! After months of waiting, .my 2LD (stands for Second Level Domain) is available for public registration now!! By the way, before I continue, do you have any idea, what .my 2LD is? No?! Sweet! I will explain first.

A second level domain name (2LD) is a shorter domain name (e.g ‘exabytes.my’) as compared to a third level domain name (3LD) (e.g. exabytes.com.my). Something like exabytes.com and just that the .com is now available with the extension “.my”.

Exabytes has specially drafted out an easy-to-understand registration process for .my 2LD which you cannot find elsewhere!

What are you waiting for? Get your detailed instruction on purchasing a .my 2LD now & grab it before your enemy grabs it! According to Mynic , it’s based on first come first served basis! It’s sold at a very reasonable price at only, RM 120/year.

Malaysians! Don’t wait, act now!

Announcement

Easter Charity Bazaar… Exabytes veni, vidi, vici…

Exabytes once again spent their weekends wisely by participating in charity events. This Easter Charity Bazaar held in conjunction with Easter Sunday, was proudly organized by JCI Tanjung Bunga and co-organized by Paradise Sandy Beach Resort, Penang.

The exciting Easter morning started with our team members getting ready our booth. There was an array of stalls selling a wide variety of interesting products and services ranging from health & beauty, children-related, arts & crafts and of course, technology-related – Exabytes web hosting services!

We distributed our Goodies bag which consisted of Exabytes notepad, 2008 calendar, and our nicely-designed iLoveBlog pen. We did not miss the chance to look for feedbacks and some survey forms were given to visitors who were actively seeking for assistance.

Here’s a list of fun activities that brightened up the day!

• Drawing & colouring Contest
• Children Handy-Crafts Contest
• Easter Eggs Hunting
• Stage Games
• Performance by St.Nicholas Home
• Fear Factor
• Lucky Draws
• Many more…

As you know, pictures paint a thousand words…here are the snapshots of the day!

Busy time! Preparing to setup our booth…

What can you get in our blue Goodies bag?

Children Drawing & Colouring Contest…Colourful Easter!

I can tell you..most of them were very talented..You can see them drawing up the bunnies in just a few minutes! According to David of digikids.com.my, the purpose of this contest is to give the children a chance to explore colours by mixing around the colours they have never applied before. All they need to have in their drawings are rabbit, egg and carrot.

So… check it out- our future “Picasso” in action!

This little girl below with the help from her mum!

The next fascinating activity is the performance by a few visually-impaired guys from St. Nicholas Home. Their performance was entertaining and guess what they used for their musical instruments…Check the photos below.

The event of the day has got to be this! The opening ceremony by the VIPs

On the day itself, we were all busy distributing our Goodies bag and explaining to visitors on our core business

And everywhere you go, you will see Exabytes goodies bag…

VIPs visiting our booth…

Cool event, wasn’t it?! We definitely enjoyed it very much and we will look forward to participating in next Charity Event!

Let’s have a bird’s eye view of 2008 JCI Easter Charity Bazaar!

Community Events

The robust growth of Internet traffic nowadays is giving pressure to traditional shared hosting servers to competently handling web server load spikes and substantial daily usage on email service. Optimizing web site and email service reliability has become a great challenge for business owners.

To help business owners, particularity small and medium size enterprises to overcome this situation, Exabytes Network has stepped up with presentation of its brand new BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan.

BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan is premium business grade hosting plan that specially custom designed with cutting edge innovations in hardware and hosting features to suit business-critical needs in today’s competitive Internet and business environment. Well, let’s see what is so special about this plan.

Peace of Mind with Powerful Technologies BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan, which made its debut on 25 March 08, exhibits a more powerful approach for business hosting users compare to other shared hosting plan. Led by powerful double Quad Core Xeon Server and 4 GB ECC RAM, along with superior features, BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan is specially formulated to suit business-critical needs.

Reliable Business Grade Email Service Understand the importance of email service to a business, email service in BizGrid Business Hosting is enhanced to 2 GB email account, 40MB attachment, 2000 emails sending per day and 500 recipients per email. The email service operates in full gear with spam filtering, McAfee antivirus solution and secured email encryption.

Identify Internet Trends & Forecast With advanced web analytics tool , SmarterStats which is bundled in this plan, you can be provided with detailed web analytics in an perceptive and easy-to-read web interface format for you to identify Internet trends, forecast and promote understanding about your customers.

Robust Collaboration within Organization BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan on the other hand, is able to help you establish best practices of collaboration within your organization that always constitutes to better tasks distribution, less production time and fabulous outcome, courtesy to robust collaboration features in SmarterMail resources sharing function.

Besides those benefits mentioned above, there are still many more features in BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan which can empower every aspect of business presence in Internet. BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan appears to be a sleeker and stronger solution that provides even smarter hosting experience to business hosting end users.

BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan is not only capable to give you peace of mind with its exceptional reliability in hosting service, it may also provide relaxation therapy to your physical. If you sign up before 31 Dec 2008, you will stand chance to win a Gintell massage chair worth RM 2988!

To know more about the benefits and information about Exabytes BizGrid Business Web Hosting Plan, please visit http://exabytes.com.my/products/business-hosting/

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While we are still celebrating our St. Patrick’s Day with our on-going promotion of discount coupon code, Exabytes never fails to think out of the box for its customers and blog’s visitors. It was St. Patrick’s Day and so we thought of creating special themes which we shall distribute it free for everyone.

Our designing team has created the following WordPress themes to go in line with this worldwide celebration!

St. Patrick’s Day Theme 1

Download St. Patrick’s Day Theme 1 here

St. Patrick’s Day Theme 2

Download St. Patrick’s Day Theme 2 here

St. Patrick’s Day Theme 3

Download St. Patrick’s Day Theme 3 here

Upload the themes in 5 easy steps:

• Extract the zip file
• Upload it to the entire folder to wp-content/themes
• Login into wp-admin
• Go to “Presentation” >> “Themes”
• Click on the “name of the uploaded folder”

Terms and conditions to use Exabytes free wordpress themes!

1. The attribution at the bottom of each page (which links to Exabytes’ blog) may not be modified or removed.
2. These themes cannot be sold off
3. These themes were created by Exabytes Network Sdn Bhd
4. Any modification to graphical images, or structure files is prohibited

Cheers to everyone and hope you enjoy our specially-created WordPress themes.

Exabytes Free Download Center

Who would have thought that I would spend my Valentine’s Day in Japan? It wasn’t all that bad, just that I missed my loved ones dearly.

It was an unforgettable experience as I was invited as one of the speakers of Hosting-Pro 2008 (Japan) which was held in Akihabara Convention Center, Tokyo, Japan.

Me, being the non-Japanese guy was assigned to this topic – “Oversea Hosting Industry Trends: Non-Japanese Asian hosting industry”. Needless to say, I met some great guys and one of them was the co-ordinator, Kentaro Iemoto-san (President and CEO of Clara Online Inc) and guest speaker, Kazutaka Michiyama-san (Director of Shanghai Bohan IT Inc, a sub division of Sakura Internet Technology Co. Ltd.). Weeks before I arrived Tokyo, I had conducted some researches and analyses regarding the differences between Japanese and Malaysian hosting industry.

To my surprise, most of the researches’ outcomes looked appealing and it gave me this “Wow!” feeling. The findings on the size of Malaysia’s hosting industry, the average hosting packages, the popular hosting plans, the rates of shared hosting and dedicated servers as well as the wages to hire a server engineer showed a substantial difference.

Kentaro Iemoto-san shared his views and experience of Clara Online Inc. about their expansion from Japan to Singapore and Taiwan as well as the hosting trends in Japan. Kazutaka Michiyama-san talked about how Sakura Internet Technology Co., Ltd. ventured into China and the experience in their past 2 years of operations in China.

Now, back to Malaysia, enjoying my Malaysians’ which I missed very much, I feel that it was an honour to be a part of this illustrious gathering as Hosting-Pro is one of the greatest events for Japan Hosting industry and Japanese Web Hosts. This year, it is the 5th year that Hosting-Pro is held. Every year, Hosting-Pro attracts thousands of industry visitors to participate in exhibition and conferences.

I have one great thing to share with you, my readers! You can find the information from my Hosting-Pro 2008 presentation slides which can be downloaded by clicking here:

My Presentation Slides

And of course, don’t miss out the following snap shots that I took in Japan!

All of us exchanging views…

And my new great buddy…Kazutaka Michiyama-san

Til you hear from me again, here’s me wishing all of you, Happy Hosting!

-Chan of Exabytes-

From The Desk Of The CEO

Does your company have online presence with excellent uptime so you can sleep soundly at night whilst your business operates with non-stop action selling your product and services? Does your business have remarkably reliable email service to communicate efficiently, improve employees’ productivity, while remaining free from troublesome junk emails and security threats to email communication?

- Coming Soon on -

25 ^th March 2008

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Let’s be Irish today! The lucky leprechauns have just scurried their pot of gold to Exabytes!

Exabytes will celebrate St Patrick’s Day with a special offer given to all our clients who purchase EBiz Gold. After all, pot of gold is one of the symbols of St. Paddy’s day. This time round we will give 30% discount for EBiz Gold lovers! It’s as simple as entering coupon code and there you go, price discounted! If you feel that EBiz Gold is beyond what you can afford, do you think Exabytes will forget about you? Sure, we won’t! We have another 20% discount for our other shared hosting plans as well.

Coupon code as shown in the image above…

EBiz Gold – Lucky30
Other Shared Hosting plan – Lucky20

Let’s have a short intro on St Patrick’s Day

The story behind St. Patrick’s Day。。。

St. Patrick’s Day or known as St. Paddy’s day is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461 AD), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17. Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by Irish and now is well-known to non-Irish people as well. He was thought to be the person who banished all the snakes from Ireland – It’s only a myth, though. The icons that symbolize St Patrick’s Day include shamrock, leprechauns that scurry their pot of gold via rainbow which brings luck to everyone, and the most notable effect is that it’s associated with the color green and orange.

Today…it’s celebrated by almost everyone where people eat Irish food or green foods, drink Guinness (wondering why Guinness? Because Guinness originates from Ireland) and attend parades. And each year, it’s celebrated to the extent that the Chicago River is dyed green!

With this, Exabytes would love to wish those celebrating it, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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The most famous detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes is no doubt one of the Icons of England. Exabytes is honoured that we have our very own version of Sherlock Holmes! Here we would like to present to you our February 2008 Employee of the Month – Ms. Susan Liu - Technical Support Specialist whom we admire dearly. I’m sure most of our clients have spoken to her before over the phone as that’s what she is for, assisting our clients who are in need of help and showing her intellectual prowess with her inquisitive characteristic. Due to her curiosity to learn and her investigative approach in dealing with most of the clients’ issues, we have labeled her as “The Sherlock Holmes of Exabytes“.

So, what are her other distinguished attributes that make her February’s Employee of the Month? She…

Handles client’s call with confidence and deal with it professionally.

Is a fast learner and what makes her special? She is a specialist when comes to self-learning.

Shows a lot of initiative and you can constantly see her proactively helping other colleagues.

Is no doubt a friendly person whom you can turn to when you are in trouble as she is forever helpful.

Last but not least, following our culture of displaying the snapshot of our Employee of the Month, here you go for this month’s reigning queen!

Employee of the Month