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Happy Chinese New Year 2012

In Chinese tradition, the tangerine is a fruit of symbolic significance which is often likened to gold that denotes prosperity, luck and wealth. Moreover, during Chinese New Year visits, it’s tradition to bring your friends and relatives the tangerine (pronounced ‘kam’) that has the same pronunciation with gold (also pronounced ‘kam’) in Cantonese.

As the most prosperous days in the Chinese calendar are drawing near, Exabytes wishes you an abundance of ‘Kam’, Success, Joy, Great Health and a very Happy Chinese New Year!

To celebrate this special occasion, our office will be closed from January 23 to January 25 and resumes operation on January 26. However, in case you encounter any technical issues, don’t fret! Our professional technical staff will still be working 24×7 to assist you via helpdesk day and night.

Lastly, may you spend a fantastic time with your family this Chinese New Year watching fireworks and enjoying some culinary traditions!

New Year, New Start! Exabytes this year’s annual dinner named “The Tenacious Tenth” that signified the great team work which held Exabees together for 10 great years took place at Gurney Hotel Ballroom on January 7, 2012 with plenty of joy, beautiful moments and laughter. This year’s theme was Oscar night and a yellow balloon was tied to every chair to make the dinner scene look even more upbeat and celebrated.

At 6.45pm, registration and photo shooting started with arriving Exabees taking group photos before the ‘Oscar backdrop’, just like Hollywood’s Oscar Night. Many beautiful and gracious female Exabees dressed elegantly in nightgowns, male Exabees in suits and some even in tuxedos. In fact, besides snapping beautiful and memorable photographs, there was another reason that made Exabees arrive with full anticipation. An iPad2 was up for grabs in our Early Bird Lucky Draw for fellow Exabees who arrived before 7.30pm!

As everybody arrived on time by 7.30pm, without further delay, the opening ceremony which saw CEO Chan, Mrs. CEO and family, COO Andy Saw and Mr. Wilson cutting the ribbon on stage was kick-started with a big round of applause before Chan gave his uplifting welcome speech. As charismatic and friendly as usual, Chan congratulated every Exabee for their hard work in helping Exabytes to remain as the biggest web hosting provider since 2005 till today. He further revealed another major goal for the company – Exabytes is to become the biggest web hosting provider not only in Malaysia, but in the whole Southeast Asia. Chan also stressed the importance of customers to Exabytes, saying that Exabytes would have no reason to exist without the support of its customers. Chan’s speech ended amidst deafening applause, and dinner was ready to be served.

To our surprise, the food savoring moment was accompanied by a captivating video clip played on the projector presenting all the significant and sweets moments of Exabees throughout the past 10 years. After some touching and mesmerizing memory flashback, we were ready to play some games and have some good fun! Each table was to send 2 representatives to participate in the first ping pong ball game. A carton box with 3 big holes at the bottom was tied to the waist of each participant. He or she was then required to carry a ping pong ball in the carton box and make his way from one end of the stage to the other end without dropping it on the floor. When the participant reached the other end of the stage, he or she must shake his hip so that the ping pong ball drop on the ground through one of the 3 big holes in the carton box. Once the ball touched the ground, the participant must quickly move to the other end before his teammate could take over the race. The teammate would then continue to do the same and pass the baton back to his teammate until the timer reached 2 minutes. The team which managed to drop the most number of ping pong balls on the floor in 2 minutes won the game.

With extreme ‘hip work’ and ‘waist power’, Chun Howe and Zack made their tablemates proud by becoming the winners of the ping pong ball game. Next, Exabees were ready for the second game of the night, “Ang Pow Hunt”! (an ang pow is a little red packet used to give monetary gift to mostly unmarried friends and relatives during Chinese New Year). The game is simple and straight forward. Twelve ang pows with cash inside were hidden randomly all over the ballroom and whoever found it would become the owner of the ang pow and the cash. Once the pleasant announcement was made, there was an instant cheering and commotion and 12 ang pows were all ‘hunted’ in less than 5 minutes. In Chinese tradition, an ang pow is a symbol of prosperity and Exabytes was glad to give away the prosperity to our 12 lucky winners.

While the night was still young, it was time to salute the very dedicated Exabees who deserve the very special 10-Year Service and 5-Year service awards. TW Ku, Roger Lew, JY Teh, Vickson Tan and HP Beng were invited to the stage to receive the highly honored award, 5-Year service award from CEO Chan. The next prestigious award to go was Exabytes’ 10-Year Service award and there was only one recipient for this special honor. He was no other than the COO of Exabytes Andy Saw aka the very first employee of Exabytes who CEO Chan met in an elevator at Gurney Tower 10 years ago.

Subsequently, the spotlight shifted to our 12 deserving EOTMs in the entire 2011. First time EOTM recipients of Exabytes were each entitled to a RM250 voucher from Sunshine Square, a departmental store. Second time EOTM honorees would each enjoy a RM500 voucher and third time honorees a RM1,000 voucher. Congratulations to all EOTMs and keep up the good work!

At the same time, CEO Chan and his counterpart Mr. Wilson were making effort to spot the Best Dressed Male Exabee or ExaKing and the Best Dressed female Exabee or ExaQueen in the hall. It was really a tough call as every Exabee was dressed up marvelously in that special night. Finally, the verdict was reached. ExaQueen of the night went to a beautiful lady who had the most outstanding hairdo of the night, Ms Ooi aka PY Ooi, Business Development Manager of Exabytes Malaysia. Without further ado, our beloved ExaKing was also announced the very next moment. He was the tall and good looking Arren Tan from WP Webhost, another business division of Exabytes. Congrats to Ms Ooi and Arren for being ExaQueen and ExaKing!

The time has reached the most awaited moment – Exabytes Annual Dinner Lucky Draw which featured prizes like 2×iPhone 4S, 2×iPad2, 2×PS 3, 1×Langkawi trip, 6×flash drives, etc. All Exabees anxiously hold their numbers in their hands, praying that their numbers would be called for huge prizes such as iPhone 4S and iPad2. Certainly not all Exabees would go home with their dream prizes, but congrats to Sau Hun, Ethan, Ms Ooi, Lim, JY Teh, Chun Howe and Rachel for their good luck in the brand new year in bringing home these fantastic prizes.

Finally, the beautiful event was nicely wrapped up by the sensational dancing session. Before anyone realized it, our emcee was quick to invite CEO Chan and his lovely missus to have the first dance of the night. Other couples soon joined in, holding hands and dancing to the romantic music. As the more upbeat music kicked in, all Exabees were down on the dance floor, dancing and rejoicing. No one was in the mood to stop the great fun until we were called upon for group photo taking.

As the annual dinner ended with prosperity and great joy, Exabees aspire to bring the company to the next level of success by offering more latest and value-added products, services and solutions to our customers. Just like what was said by CEO Chan in his welcome speech, without the support of our clients, there would be no Exabytes and Exabytes’ annual dinner.

Once again, Happy New Year to our valuable blog readers!

After the joyous celebration of Christmas just a few days ago, New Year 2012 is coming real soon! Have you our loyal blog readers and valued customers got your New Year’s resolutions and dreams all set? No matter how long your list of resolutions is, Exabytes wishes you a Happy New Year of happiness, love and prosperity and may all your heartfelt wishes come true!

As what was said by Oprah Winfrey, “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” Amidst great joy and cheerful celebration, Exabytes invites you to cherish the beautiful and memorable moments in 2011 and welcome the dawn of 2012 with delight, passion and excitements.

On a side note, our office will be closed on January 2 (GMT+8) and reopen on January 3 (GMT+8) in conjunction with the New Year celebration. However, shall you require any technical assistance during the holiday, please do not hesitate to contact our dedicated technical team which works 24×7 to assist you via helpdesk day and night.

Once again, Happy New Year and Happy Holiday Everybody!

Christmas carols, Christmas trees, mistletoes, Santa Claus, Christmas is just around the corner! Are you already in the Christmas spirit? Well, if you are not, let’s try the following to liven up the Christmas spirit!

• Play and listen to Christmas songs or music
• Watch Christmas movies
• Wish everybody you meet Merry X’mas and Happy Holiday! Greet them with a smile
• Donate whenever you see a collection bucket
• Spend some time to help people who are less fortunate than yourselves. For example, give away your used items to local shelters or needy
• Decorate your house for X’mas
• Go ice-skating
• Send Christmas greetings to your friends and relatives

In this beautiful holiday season, Exabytes sends you the warmest X’mas wishes to you and your family. May your X’mas be filled with peace and love!

To celebrate this special occasion, our office will be closed on December 26, 2011 and resumes operation on December 27. In case you encounter any technical issues, don’t fret! Our professional technical staff will still be working 24×7 to assist you via helpdesk day and night.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Everybody!

Have you ever received a call from someone from Exabytes who had the gentlest and most polite voice that would almost melt your heart? Have you ever come across someone who has the patience to make more than 80 telephone calls in a day just to remind her customers with her sweetest voice ever? This super polite, super dedicated and super patient person is Exabytes’ EOTM of September 2011! Instead of giving you the hints to who the person was, this time we are going to make the guessing easier by telling you that it was a she from our Customer Service Department.

She is that kind of person who is friendly and approachable to everyone. She is very sociable and affable, but can be rather quiet sometimes. Her hobby and ‘vision’ are to try out all the delicious food in the world she can find. At work, she is the expert who handles all billing related enquiries of our customers. When calling our customers, the tone of her voice will never change even when she is making the 80th call of the day just to inform our customers about their billing matters.

Without further ado, let’s put our hands together for Exabytes’ billing analyst, Ms Selin Lau! In September, Siew Ling stood out from the crowd because of her selfless dedication and her much applauded working attitude as follows:

• always takes the initiative to work overtime to make calls to customers on our invoice list
• is highly responsible for payment follow-ups with clients
• possesses great learning attitude
• is kind and friendly
• is extremely patient and dedicated at work

Congratulations Selin, you are officially the star of September!!

November 25, 2011 is Black Friday!  While some believe that Friday the 13th aka Black Firday is the day which brings bad luck, November 25 this year is actually a special day also called Black Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.  Although Black Friday is not an official holiday, many major shops open as early as 4am to shoppers especially non-retail employees who are usually given a day off.  In addition, Cyber Monday is the Monday immediately following Black Friday.

In conjunction with this joyous and beautiful occasion, Exabytes (US) is offering our valued customers the privilege of doing shopping at the lowest price for the highest value from November 25^th to 28^th, 2011.

Check it out:

a) 70% OFF Unlimited Business Web Hosting – as low as USD 2.595/month

b) 50% OFF for all VPS Packages – as low as USD 14.95/month

c) 50% OFF for Reseller Web Hosting – as low as USD 16.66/month
* only for package with 20 domains and above.

d) 50% OFF for Windows Business Web Hosting – as low as USD 2.825

To enjoy these special offers, kindly use the following coupon codes:

• Coupon Code for VPS , Reseller Web Hosting, Windows Business Hosting: BlackFri50_Nov2011
• Coupon Code for Unlimited Business Web Hosting: BlackFri70_Nov2011

There is officially no better time to do shopping than NOW!

ACT FAST!!! These amazing offers are valid ONLY UNTIL NOVEMBER 28!!

Once again, thank you for being our valued customers.  We are grateful for being able to serve you again and continuously meeting your hosting needs.

A time of turkeys, pumpkin pies, family gatherings and precious moments, Exabytes wishes you a lovely Thanksgiving and a joyous holiday season in this special November.  And as 2012 approaches, we would also like to wish you a wonderful new year filled with abundance, joy and treasured moments.  May 2012 be your best year ever!

With many thanks,

Chan, Kee Siak
CEO of Exabytes Network Pte. Ltd.

CEO of Exabytes, Mr. Chan Kee Siak has once again appeared in an interview with The Edge, the highly popular and noted business magazine of Malaysia to share his insights into eCommerce and his e-entrepreneurial journey which started when he was at the tender age of 19.

Commanding 21% of market share in Malaysia and serves over 50,000 customers in 121 countries, Exabytes Network was founded by Chan back then when he was still enrolled in Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TARC). The hardworking chap sold computer hardware and helped customers to design their websites to earn some extra pocket money before he discovered the potential market of web hosting in Malaysia. “Back then, the Internet was a very new thing and there were very few players offering hosting in Malaysia,” Chan said.

Chan’s first 100% online based business started by the name of hostkaki.com, which was later changed to Exabytes Network when Chan decided to drop out of TAR College and fully concentrate on his online web hosting business. Described by Chan as “a once in a lifetime opportunity”, business of Exabytes had since tripled and quickly expanded from reselling to buying its own servers and renting then out to clients.

When asked about how could Malaysia emerge from the stiff competition around the globe in the technology and online industry, Chan indicated Malaysia’s greatest advantage was that majority of Malaysians could speak at least 2-3 different languages. Indeed, the success story of Exabytes was full of challenges. In early days, the biggest challenge faced by Exabytes was manpower as web hosting was still very new and many Malaysians did not have the relevant skills and needed to be trained. As a technie, Chan also admitted that he did not have the aptitude for bookkeeping. “I think this is a common situation faced by most technopreneurs. I simply outsourced my company accounts for the first 6-7 years. As a result, I didn’t have a good idea of the exact financial position of the company. The consequence was that I lost out on opportunities and reduced the company’s potential. But of course now, we have someone in charge of overseeing the company’s finances,” recalls Chan.

Chan’s advice to newbies who just ventured into the technology and online business was that investors should focus their spending on the core business activities instead of investing heavily on furniture, nice office and cars to keep their start-up costs low.

Today, Chan runs a very creative and dynamic company to accommodate the current generation employees who prioritize job satisfaction over wages. Like other establishments, Exabytes must continue to grow to stay profitable. “The future is with cloud hosting. Everything can be hosted online such as your accounting software. Companies need not install the software on their computer to use the application anymore,” Chan was quoted as saying. He then added that Exabytes hoped to expand to nearby countries in the future and at the same time continue to maintain its position as a market leader. Seeing Singapore as a strong competitor, Exabytes established a Singapore based subsidiary few years ago to compete with it more effectively.

Also having many years of experience in serving overseas clients especially from North America, Chan indicated that the growth of web hosting has been rather stagnant in the past years in the US and Europe hence many overseas competitors have already landed in Asean. As Malaysia is stable both politically and economically in the region, many overseas players have chosen Malaysia and Singapore as their primary target markets in the region. Besides, the boom of mobile applications is also increasing the demand for web content which then boosts the demand for web hosting.

When asked about the current global economic slump, Chan was optimistic that it would instead create more opportunity for Exabytes. “When many employees were retrenched and couldn’t find a job, they needed to fund income and the online business model is one of the best choices as it requires only minimum business setup costs, operation costs, etc.”

In fact, CEO Chan has been busy giving speeches at different venues such as seminars and universities in these few years. We believe that his interview with The Edge would be another piece of great advice and inspiration to many rising entrepreneurs.

Time flies, as the month of July was wrapped up in the midst of numerous meetings and new product and promotion launches, a star was born in the month of August, our Employee of the Month for August 2011. But before we reveal the big secret, let’s give you our valued blog follower a hint or two about our hero of the month!

First, he is a frequent gym-goer with a muscular body. Second he makes his iphone his best mate to the extent that he sleeps with it and eats with it. Third, his favourite pastime is watching Japanese anime movies, English drama series and listening to Japanese songs even he doesn’t understand a word of it. Fourth, according to some sources, he is often seen ‘drifting’ on the roads in his Toyota SEG. Fifth, he is a friendly person who is approachable and helpful to anyone around him.

Without further delay, let’s give a big round of applause to Level 1 Software Engineer, Rick Toh Eng Chun!! However, Rick wasn’t selected as EOTM of August because of his drifting skills or his liking for his iphone. Instead, he was chosen because of his good working attitude and selfless dedication as follows:

• Takes the initiative to solve client issues
• Good working attitude
• Eager and willing to learn, friendly
• Assists clients well and is highly responsible for follow-ups of client issues until resolved
• Completes task assigned to him on time

Congratulations Rick, keep up the good work!