The long awaited Exabytes Privite Movie Screening of the blockbuster of summer 2008 “The X-Files: I Want To Believe” is just around the corner! Courtesy to the great support from public, the “Exabytes Dates You For A Movie!” survey on our website has received enthusiastic participation.

We would like to say thank you to those who have participated in this survey and given us valuable feedback. Congratulations to all the winners of this survey. At the same time, we feel regret for the participants who are not selected to join this movie screening as we have received overwhelmed participation.

Attention to all invited guests. The ticket redemption forms have been sent you if have confirmed your attendance. Please check your email, read the instructions on how to collect your tickets as well as terms & conditions which are stated on your ticket redemption form.

We will setup a ticket redemption counter from 12:30pm to 2:30pm at GSC cinema on the movie day. For your information, the ticket redemption for survey winners is base on first come first served basis. So be an early bird to get a better seat.

As the recap to you all, the details of movie screening is in brief as below:

Movie Title: The X-Files: I Want To Believe
Date: 3 August 2008 (Sunday)
Showing Time: 3pm – 5pm
Venue: GSC at Queensbay Mall, Penang
Price: Sponsored by Exabytes Network

Are you a sceptic? Or a believer in paranormal phenomena? Well, it’s doesn’t matter. Let’s enjoy the show together in the theater!

p/s: We are going to reward you with an “Exclusive Special Gift” when you attend for the movie. See you there!

Community Events

For the last weekends, I represented Exabytes to attend to the Barcamp – the first unconference in Malaysia. Normally, we expects some hiccups in the first try, but it turned out to be amazing.

Here are the sights, people and sounds of the fantastic, action-packed, 2 days event:

Your Khaileeness. We can hear you from the airport.

Yoonkit, session on Open Malaysia Blog.

Mikko on Aggressive Web Development. Couldn’t get more aggresive than that.

Ian, from Yahoo Singapore.

Henry, another Yahoo guy. (where’s Google?)

Speaking of Yahoo, don’t we just love the Kung Fu T-Shirt sponsored by them?

Kris Khaira, my fellow penangites, on Design for Developers.

Danny Foo with great smile as usual.

The BarCamp ladies broke out for lunch first. Yummy!

Yours truly, offering the crazy dedicated server deal for the campers.

Nazrol on Music 2.0.

Adi Wong, whom I met previous from the webmaster gathering.

Khai Lee, starting the ‘Gang  Bang’ session, along with Arzumy and Kris Khaira.

Guy with nice hair that supports ‘co-living’ on top of ‘co-working’.

Our best customer – Jan Geirnaert!

(Alex and Anthony) All in all, barcamp is about sharing ideas…

…in a very informal environment. (guess whose sandals?)

Daniel Cerventus – bingo!

Kudos to the committed organizing team: Kamal, Khai Lee, Nazroll, Daniel and a lot more guys for making this happen.

See you guys next year!

Community Events

Exciting news! Just to keep all of you updated, we’re moving our offices to a bigger and better location soon! It is still under construction now, but we are expected to move out late this year, probably in September. . . hopefully. Hehe.

The new office is right around the corner from our current office, but it’s bigger and the view is so much better! It will have a total of about 5200 sq ft of useable area (including mezzanine floor) which is 2.6 times larger than our existing office. We are lucky that we get to be on the 18th floor of SunTech Tower, so the outside view that we get from our new office is simply. . . breathtaking.

With the new office, we’ll have a proper pantry where we can actually sit down and have our meal together, kick back and relax in a private lounge room where there will be sofas and magazines just for us to chill in, and there will even be gym and sauna nearby if we feel like pampering ourselves after a long hard day at work! Goodness, we can hardly wait!

Here are a couple pictures :

This is how the SunTech Tower looks like. . .

This is how our new office looks like during the renovation . . .

This is how the hallway looks like . . .

And not forgetting, the breathtaking view from our new office!

Obviously we are all very excited about the new office, so keep coming as we will keep posting more pictures as things progress to keep you updated! Until then!

Insight @ Exabytes!

Time passes by, and before you know it, our country, our dear Malaysia, is going to turn 51 this 31st August. So what better way to spread this wonderful news other than announcing it on your website, even your blog, for everyone around the world to share and cherish?

Therefore, Exabytes is happy to invite you to celebrate this glorious day with much joy and happiness as we pamper you with even more SPECIAL discounts to give away! So don’t miss out these magnificent discounts as it does not last forever!

	Merdeka Hide & Seek Contest If you can spot, you can win! Let’s have some fun this Merdeka Day. Uncover Exabytes’ secret treasures by spotting the hidden items (Malaysia flags & Exabytes logo) in this fun Hide & Seek game! It really is easy to win this game, so spot them all now so you won’t miss the chance to win yourself a stylish Sony Walkman Video MP3 Player worth RM699 for you to flaunt!
	Merdeka Domain Name Sale You’ve been eyeing that domain name. You’ve always wanted to get your claws on it, for a long, long time. Now is your chance! Grab hold of this opportunity as .TLD domain (.com.my/.net.my/.org.my) are now sold for only RM51/year and .my domain is now sold at only RM99/year! Catch it now before it gets away!
	RM51 Discount on EBiz Gold Web Hosting Enjoy a one-time RM51 discount when you purchase the EBiz Gold plan from Exabytes within our Merdeka promotion! With 300GB at only RM323.5/year, this has got to be the best deal ever! Selling fast like hot cakes, get it now before the promotion ends!
	RM250 discount for Semi-D Enjoy a one-time RM250 discount on our Semi-D Webhosting plan! This is a limited-time promotion only, so hurry and grab one now before it’s too late!
	Merdeka Dedicated Server Sale Dedicated Servers are now sold at such insanely low price, nobody else can offer! Save over RM3700, get yourself FREE upgrades and 33% OFF for Gold Server Management plan when you purchase to our Dedicated Server! Unbelievable? Believe it! Break free from shared hosting. Switch to a Dedicated Server today!

Now common! Join us to spread the wonderful news today!

Announcement

You’ve heard it being held in the US. You’ve heard it being held in Australia, Italy, Singapore, India, and all other parts of the world. But who would have guessed that BarCamp would be held in Malaysia? But it’s here, and it’s bigger than ever!

Now just in case you weren’t already aware of it, BarCampMalaysia is one big gathering comprising geeks and nerds all over the world, sharing one interest and passion – technology! Okay, so maybe that one bit about “geeks & nerds” is a little exaggerated, but really, as long as you have even the slightest interest in technology, you should really join this huge event!

So what if you’re not much of a tech-geek but still interested to share your passion on a different issue? Automotive, photography, agriculture, environment, sports, music? Not a problem! Come on over and share as this event is all about sharing and learning in an open environment regardless of what your topic of interest is! All you have to do, is drag yourself there (admission is FREE!), gather all the confidence you could muster, speak up, demo and share! And unlike the usual boring one-way conference, where the speaker talks and the audiences snore, this gathering is basically the opposite. This gathering is all about 2-way communication where participation is highly encouraged and audiences are expected to engage in communication.

So for those who are interested, details of the event are as below :

Date :

26th & 27th July, 2008.

Venue :

xTrain Sdn Bhd
Unit E-7-1, Block E
Megan Avenue 1
189 Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur

We are going to be there, so we hope to see you there too!

Community Events

The time you’ve been waiting for is finally here! Exabytes is proud to announce the arrival of another round of our private movie screening for you movie addicts out there! That’s right, time to bypass the long ticket lines and get close & personal with Exabytes while enjoying your dose of a box-office movie!

These tickets are up for grabs when you take part in “Exabytes Dates You for A Movie” survey, which kicks off on July 8th until July 18th, 2008 and be in the running to win free tickets to the hottest movie in town this August!

• Movie Title: The X-Files – I Want To Believe (click here for trailer)
• Date: 3rd August 2008 (Sunday)
• Show Time: 3.00pm – 5.00pm
• Venue: GSC Queensbay Mall, Penang
• Price: Sponsored by Exabytes Network

Winners will be picked randomly and informed via email latest by July 25th, 2008!

To top it all, the lucky winners will also be instantly rewarded with a small popcorn combo while enjoying their favorite movie on that day! So what are you waiting for? Click here for free movie tickets, today!

See you at the movie!

Community Events

An evening well spent…

Let’s have a recap on what is this all about HERE.

Famous bloggers, Microsoft experts, e-Commerce specialists and renowned designers were all sharing their knowledge and know-how in different areas of expertise. It was a great evening for each of us and no doubt we learnt a lot from them.

Let’s start the afternoon with these photos…The venue!! The Apartment!

Registration in progress

“Networking” session started…

Listening attentively…

First session done and now..Tea break..

Wonder how yummy was the food? The chef claimed that it’s from Jamie Oliver’s recipes! But I have to admit, it’s yummy.

“Class” continued after tea break…

Lucky draw sessions by the speakers and here are the lucky faces. Winners were awarded with Exabytes’ hosting vouchers, 7th Anniversary Tshirts and 80GB external hdd.

Happy faces everywhere…

Finally.. the speakers..LiewCF, Rohan, Ikram and Adrian. Thank you for the great advices.

And Exabytes has its own rep too!

Here comes the most awaited photo of the day…

Hope everyone has enjoyed this year’s KL gathering! It’s  a record with a total of 44 people attended this gathering. See you guys in Penang for the next gathering and with bigger crowd, of course!

Cheers!

Community Events

 

Living Loud for Liberty !

This July 4th, Exabytes celebrates the historical date for all the citizens of The United States of America – the birth of the nation for 232 years!

Therefore, since it is a day for picnics, parades, marching bands, barbecues or simply watching “bombs bursting in the air”, Exabytes now invites all of you to join us celebrate this wonderful celebration with much joy and happiness that comes with an even greater offer just for you, on this Independence Day!

Sign up within the 1st to 15th of July 2008 and get yourself a USD28 discount when you sign up our EBiz Gold Hosting Plan! This is a limited-time offer, so hurry now before it’s too late!

Enter coupon code : idpd2008

Have a happy 4th of July everybody!

Announcement

Ahoy! Welcome on board! As promised, we are happy to make this EOTM an ongoing event in keeping all our customers informed about our best performers in Exabytes! So here comes another deserving star, entitling him to win this award! Oh yes, the competition is getting hotter, and the award goes back to the manhood this time!

Need to know anything about webhosting? He’s the man. Need consultation on the best solution to your webhosting needs? He’s the man. Need to fix the annoying little bugs to your problematic websites? He’s the man! With that much of knowledge in webhosting coupled with much patience and charisma, the deserving winner for this month ladies and gentlemen, goes to – Mr David, the Certified Webhosting Doctor!

That’s right, for some of you, this David is the same David that has been corresponding with you while helping to resolve your webhosting issues through the tickets sent it! David has shown such remarkable dedication and commitment, it is very rare to find him disappointing the customers. In fact, his replies were always so precise, clear and straight to the point, help to clear any uncertainties that may have troubled our customers – making him one of customers’ favorite “webhosting doctors”!

So what are the traits he has, making him the best yet among the rest? Let’s check it out!

Able to solve some unresolved issues.

Try best to understand client’s request and reply them clearly with alternative solutions.

Able to provide detailed explanation on any issues asked.

Incredibly efficient and dedicated in executing the tasks assigned to him.

Very independent in executing his daily tasks.

Very hardworking and full of initiatives.

Manage to assist customers in a timely manner.

Manage to resolve overdue tickets efficiently.

Extremely friendly, and treat his other team members with respect.

Ahh. So that’s what makes him a winner! Okay, personality traits revealed, but how does this sounds-like-a-handsome-lad look like? A handsome lad he is indeed – ladies and gentlemen, let’s give it up for your reigning king of the month, Mr David Ch’ng!

Needless to say, David’s ability to answer all 1001 tickets sent in, with much clarity and efficiency has without a doubt make him just one of the best System Engineers in house a.k.a the best Certified Webhosting Doctor alive! That said, congratulations again, David!

Employee of the Month

Now who says all those years of chatting online with your friends do not serve you good? Who says speed-typing does not matter? Well guess what? Recently, Exabytes just threw our 2nd Typing Competition to determine the fastest typist in the house this second time around!

Organized by two event planners, David & HP Loh, it was one of the most exciting, easiest games to play! All the contestants need to do, was to sit quietly in front of the desktop, take a few deep breaths to calm the nerves down, and start typing feverishly away! The fastest typist who managed to successfully complete the 3 stages with minimum errors would be crowned as the winner! As easy as that! And the best thing is, this exciting competition also came with a line of prizes for the top-3 winners!

• Grand Prize = Lexmark X2550 Printer
• Second Prize = MP230 Edifier Multimedia Speaker + 2GB Kingston DataTraveler
• Third Prize = Car FM Modulator + 2GB Kingston DataTraveler

Now check out our very own super typists in action!

Looks like fun huh? It sure was! And without further ado, let us introduce you to the three winners!

The 2nd runner-up went to. . . Mr Andy, Exabytes Technical Manager!

The 1st runner-up went to. . . Ms Thara, Exabytes Creative Writer! (who was not there for prize giving ceremony but we managed to get her photo anyways!)

And the winner for Exabytes 2nd Typing Competition, who has been crowned as the Speed-Typing Master for twice in a row, is none other than the undisputed, unbeatable yet. . . Mr Guan, Exabytes Asst. Technical Manager!

Congratulations to all winners, not forgetting to the lucky draw winners as well! But before we close the curtains, we would also like to thank the OCs – David & Loh – for making this event a successful one!

Until another fun updates from us again, adios for now!

Insight @ Exabytes!