Last week, Exabytes attended the world’s largest cloud festival with over 6500 attendees, 200 exhibitors, and 250 speakers. It took place at Europa-Park Germany from 10-16 March 2018. It is an event that lets its participants gain valuable insights from many speakers and industry leaders.
What is CloudFest?
CloudFest is a world-leading conference geared toward cloud-based, hosting, and service provider industries. Focusing on three distinctive pillars – growth, connectivity and learning – the festivals provide cloud professionals access to the latest technologies, innovations, and trends that make modern digital communication possible.
In this event, we met our partner such as .blog, .cloud, opensrs, radix, donuts, plesk and etc to discuss further on our partnership.
Up next, we will be working on more domain promotions, the evolution of Plesk 17.8, outstanding website builder and WordPress boost with the Jetpack. In addition, we will also be gaming up to the strongest site and server security, efficient malware detection and etc.
We were thankful for this event as we were able to meet all our partners and other service providers. It was an empowering experience to exchange insights and expand the opportunities for future collaborations!
So, stay tuned to our social media page or subscribe to our newsletter for the latest update! We will announce them really soon!
A Perfect Combination of SSD VPS & Plesk Onyx Control Panel.
It’s a perfect combination of High-performance SSD VPS with Plesk Onyx control panel, optimized to meet the growing needs with self-administration and customization. With WebOps platform you can manage your SSD VPS, automate, run and grow applications or websites easily and efficiently.
Let’s check out the Highlights of Plesk SSD VPS
1. Focus on Developers
We would like to highlight that Plesk SSD VPS focuses on the needs of web developers and professionals with features such as Docket support, Git Deploy, System Update tools, Linux Cgroup limits, SSL Improvements, DNSSec Support, Plesk Extension SDK, Ruby Support, Phyton Support and many more.
2. Integrated WordPress TOOLKIT 3.0
You can easily manage a few or more WordPress websites on your Plesk SSD VPS.
#WordPress Management
As a developer, you can utilize Plugin and Theme Mass Management to keep your installation up to date with automated updates to effectively lower the chances of getting hacked.
#WordPress One Click Hardening
Plesk SSD VPS comes with WordPress Harden and security scanner. Simply check the items you wish to harden and click secure in our Plesk SSD VPS. It’s all automated and no individual account login is required.
#WordPress Security Scanning
Plesk SSD VPS makes sure every WordPress site on your server is secure by identifying any risk occurred during the installation process and secure them automatically.
3. Optimized For Speed
Exabytes Plesk SSD VPS uses High-End server with combination of SSD RAID10 storage, Nginx with HTTP/2, latest PHP7 with memcached and Opcode support as well as free CDN. We offer up to 100 Mbps bandwidth and dedicated IP to support your VPS needs. Your Plesk SSD VPS is monitored by our dedicated engineers who work 24/7 to ensure your network with 99.9% uptime and VPS server with 99.5% uptime.
4. Choice of SSL Encryption
With our Plesk SSD VPS, you can now provide greater protection of your services and enable all your sites with a valid SSL certificate. You can simplify hard configuration with the Security Advisor extension. All your websites are now served with HTTPS; you can even generate the certificates using Let’s Encrypt.
5. Developer Productivity Extension
#Docker
Deploy and manage Docker containers straight from our Plesk interface; install Docker containers locally or to a remote node registered in Plesk.
#Node.js
Add Node.js applications with just a few clicks, and start/stop/restart those apps, run scripts and edit configuration tables right from Plesk control panel.
What’s New with Plesk’s Latest Version 17.8?
# Plesk Easy Onboard
With Plesk’s new version 17.8, you can get onboard easily after first Plesk install & login, including registration screen with social login (Facebook, Google, GitHub).
# Plesk Advisor
Plesk Advisor is your best friend — it provides you with the best practices to apply state-of-the-art security and performance settings for both server setting and hosted websites.
# WordPress Toolkit 3.0
With Toolkit 3.0 you will see some amazing changes and a brand new UI that simplify and assist rapid development, deployment and management of WordPress instances. Maintenance for WordPress can be done in WordPress toolkit, including customizable maintenance mode template.
# Plesk Extensions Catalog
Finding your desired extensions is much easier now with faster catalog search. Simply start typing a name, a category, or any keywords in the Extension Catalog search box to immediately see relevant results. Browsing the catalog is now more convenient to the addition of extension categories.
# Support Famous Cloud Backup
Plesk 17.8 supports the most popular cloud storage — you can now use the service of the following cloud providers to store your VPS data.
Amazon S3
Google Drive
OneDrive
How Plesk SSD VPS Helps Developers Save Time In Managing VPS Servers
Plesk SSD VPS focuses on the requirements of web professionals at its core. It makes the life of developers easier by allowing them to automate their most time consuming tasks; help them to get back more time and added security layer; reduce dependency on third parties; increase speed, productivity and more.
It makes your life easier and helps to save time with its auto integration function. In other words, it helps developers increase their revenue by improving their workflow.
To know more about Plesk SSD VPS, please Click Here.
**The following screenshots was taken on a Samsung smartphone.
1. Look for the Email icon/Mail application on your smartphone.
2. Choose ‘add account’
3.The Mail Options will allow you to setup with POP3, IMAP or Microsoft Exchange ActivSync.
**IMAP is strongly recommended as it allows users to sync & view their emails on multiple devices.
4. For incoming server settings, please refer to the below screenshots for example.
Username: [email protected] (your email address) *Please note that the Username must be your full email address instead of just your name.
Password : your email password
IMAP/POP3 server : mail.domain.com (domain.com should be replaced by your domain name)
Security type : None
Server Port : 143 (IMAP) / 110 (POP3)
5. For outgoing server settings.
Please refer to the below screenshots for example.
Username: Your email address (for example, “mailto:[email protected]) [email protected]
Password : your email password
mail.domain.com (domain.com should be replaced by your domain name)
Security type : None
Server Port : 587
Then select ‘Sign In’.
6. Click on ‘sign-in’. It’s all set!
We hope this guide is useful to you. If you have any further questions, please feel free to write in the comments below.
Holla! Good day everyone! Yes, we are here to announce the February winners for Site of the Month Awards (SOTM). As usual, it’s always challenging to judge each submission and decide the winners.
To clarify, our team and the judges will rate the submission based on the 5 criteria as below:
Design
SEO
Content
Accessibility
Performance
You can check out elaboration of each point, so that you can know the aspect that you need to improve for your website.
So now let’s see the February Winners SOTM Awards goes to….
Personal
Congratulations to Adi Azudin!
Travelholic adalah laman web yang fokus kepada kandungan berkaitan pelancongan dengan membahagikan kandungan kepada 12 topik berkaitan iaitu berita, budaya, inspirasi, kesedaran, makanan, membeli-belah, panduan, pengetahuan, penginapan, percutian, restoran dan juga tip bagi pengembara.
Check out the website.
Commercial
Congratulations to Idea Batch Venture!
We are Web Development & Graphic Design Agency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia since 2015, experts in website development, digital marketing, server hosting and graphic design. Through years, we have become one of the best in this industry, providing remarkable service with reasonable price.
Check out the website.
E-Commerce
Congratulations to Denise Khaandor!
Buy, sell or trade-in used PlayStation 4 (PS4) games on UNGAMED for the best prices! A space for gamers, by gamers to connect, shop and compete. Oh, and we have FREE shipping too!
Check out the website.
Once again, congratulations to all the winners! If you have more other websites, do submit again!
For those nominees who didn’t manage to win the awards, you still have chance to win for The Public Favourite Website Awards, where it is voted by the public! Do ask your friends and family or even your fans to vote and stand a chance to win this awards!
On 7th March 2018, Exabytes Capital Group Sdn Bhd (“Exabytes”), one of the South East Asia largest Cloud Hosting Providers for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), today announced it has entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with ZONE Telecom Pte. Ltd. (“ZONE”) to acquire Cybersite Services Pte. Ltd. (“Cybersite”) for approximately SGD2,200,000. The transaction is expected to close late in March 2018, subject to customary regulatory and other closing requirements.
About Cybersite
Cybersite with a website at www.cybersite.com.sg is a company incorporated in Singapore with limited liability and, prior to the completion of the Acquisition, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ZONE Telecom Pte. Ltd. It is principally engaged in the business of provision of web-related services which includes, among others, web hosting, email hosting, cloud server hosting, domains’ registration, renewal and transfer, dedicated server hosting, SSL certificate, hosted backup and disaster recovery and website design.
ZONE Telecom Pte Ltd. is a company incorporated in Singapore with limited liability, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of e-Kong Group Limited, a company incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability and the shares of which are listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 524).
About Exabytes Group
Exabytes is specialized in providing cloud hosting services and helping SME to grow their businesses online since its establishment in 2001. Today they serve over 100,000+ Customers (from individuals, students, small & medium size businesses, to government and public listed companies) in 121 countries and manage over 1000+ servers with 100,000+ websites, 1,000,000+ email accounts.
Besides being awarded as one of the BEST Domain Resellers by MYNIC (The Malaysia Network Information Centre) for many years, they were also handpicked by Google as a Google Premier Partner in 2015 to offer Google AdWords Online Advertising to SME in Malaysia to grow their businesses online by leveraging on the power of Google search and its effective online marketing tools.
Website & Cloud Hosting products include: Domain Name Registration, Business Web & Email Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Reseller Hosting, CDN(Content Delivery Network), VPS (Virtual Private Server), Dedicated Servers, Co-Location services, Managed Disaster Recovery, Managed Cloud Backup and SSL Web Certificate, Premium Business Email hosting with Exchange ActiveSync, instant website design, and more. Exabytes also through its sister group companies, operates EasyParcel and EasyStore.
For more details visit Exabytes.MY .
Yesterday (6 March 2018), Exabytes HQ welcomed the students of Management and Science University (MSU Penang), who visited our Headquarters with their lecturer.
Ms Ooi, the Senior Business Development Manager of Exabytes sharing on the journey of Exabytes.
Ms Ooi introduced the Exabytes Group, and shared her work experience since 2002.
She also explained the services offered by Exabytes, including what SEO (search engine optimization) is all about.
Clarence Leong, the CEO of EasyParcel (an Exabytes company) shared his experience and journey with EasyParcel.
Clarence also shared the story of EasyParcel and the services offered.
After the introduction of Exabytes and EasyParcel, Miss Ooi brought the students to visit Exabytes HQ and EasyParcel office.
Ms Ooi explaining to the eager students where they’re heading.
Visit at EasyParcel office.
Clarence Leong introduced the working place to the students.
MSU lecturer having a discussion with Clarence Leong to find out more about EasyParcel.
Group photo of MSU students at EasyParcel office.
Once again, thank you for visiting us!
To the students, we hope you had great fun learning about Exabytes and EasyParcel.
Do you notice some changes in Chrome when you try to load a website recently? On the website address bar, we can see “Secure” or “Not Secure” for certain websites.
Well, this is Google Chrome 62 new security feature started to kicked in in October 2017. Google had also sent email notifications to all site owners via Google Search Console about this issue.
Below is a copy of Google’s notification:
Effective July 2018, Google Chrome browser will mark non-HTTPS as ‘Not Secure’
Here is the insecure warning sign:
When users visit a HTTP website, Chrome will show the ‘Not Secure’ warning!
For more detailed information, feel free to refer to the original announcement from Google.
Google has always done their best to make sure the Internet is a safe place to work, connect and have fun. As a website owner, we have the responsibility to make sure the information of our visitors is secure.
Do you want your website to show “Secure”? We have a solution for you
Certificate Authorities (CAs) for paid certificates are committed to providing round clock support to customers.
On the other hand, free SSL don’t assist customers with such remarkable support and you are responsible for setting up your free SSL on your own.
2. Liability Protection
In general, if you purchase an SSL certificate, you’re going to get better liability protection than free SSL. If you run an eCommerce store, think of this as insurance for your business.
Extended Validation SSL take website security a step further compared to domain validation SSL.
It’s secure with a rigorous vetting process that enables them to have the signature green address bar at the top of your browser.
4. Validity Period
Some Free SSL certificates required its users to renew every 30-90 days. In the case of paid certificates, they can be issued for a period of 1-2 years.
So don’t wait, take action today and let your visitors know that your website is a secure one so that they can surf and buy with confidence.
Hey everyone! First and utmost, we would like to apologize for taking such a long time to announce the result for January. The internal judges and the team are working hard to discuss and rate each website, hence, taking up some time during the process. It is really a challenging task when our team and judges are reviewing every participating website.
By the way, if this is your first time here, you are probably wondering what is this all about.
So, this is it. January winners for Site of Month Awards (SOTM) go to….
Commercial
Congratulations to WebMedic!
E-commerce
Congratulations to PTT Outdoor & PTT Outdoor (M) Sdn. Bhd.!
Personal
Congratulations to Edward Lim!
Once again, congratulations to all the SOTM winners for January! Keep up the good work and if you have more websites, we welcome you to submit for next month!
For those who did not make it this time, no worries! You can improve your website and join again next year!
Before talking about this topic, let’s have a brief general outline on what website bandwidth usage and data transfer are all about.
Bandwidth Usage
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred at one time.
If we are to use a mall’s parking area as an illustration of a website’s bandwidth usage, the size of the parking area determines the quantity of cars that can be parked in any given time.
Data Transfer
Data Transfer is the actual amount of data has been transferred.
If we are to use the same illustration, Data Transfer can be interpreted as total number of cars that can be parked in the parking area over a certain period of time.
How to Reduce Data Transfer
There are simple ways to reduce your bandwidth usage by yourself without any help from a programmer.
I promise you that these methods will not reduce the number of your visitors, but the amount of folders or files on your website to make your website faster and easier to load.
1. Keep texts and captions short and simple
Find out and remove any unnecessary text, images and even trash! Keep everything as small and as few as you can.
Tips: Spot your page keywords while removing the unrelated stuff. Minimalism is currently on the trend!
2. Optimise your photo sizes by choosing the right photo format
Refrain from using fancy flash presentations, audio or video.
This includes any background music which can sometimes appear to be annoying to your visitors.
Tips: Use JPEG image format for photos and GIF form for graphics.
3. Reduce the sizes of your HTML files
This can be done by using CSS and calling Javascripts externally instead of embedding them in every page.
4. Only use useful and relevant Meta Tags
Keep your meta tags clear and short. Focus only on keywords that are related and relevant. Long and lengthy meta tags are not only confusing, but take up data.
5. Cache your website
Set an expiry date in the HTTP headers so that your visitors’ browsers will refresh the content after a certain time.
It allows their browser to save a copy of your website, and each time the visitor visits your website, the pages are served from the copy on the browser and not your web server.
.BLOG tells your personality, lifestyle and beliefs. Share your fashion & lifestyle stories, spread your influence and connect with people who have the same thought & styles as you.
If you are a fashion lover or lifestyle hunter, leverage on the power of .BLOG domains to make yourself completely explorable on the Internet. Having only an Instagram account is not enough, a BLOG is also what you need.
Let’s have a look at some of the bloggers who enjoy using a .blog domain
Photography skill-sharing blog – srbphotographic.blog
It’s sharing about photography tools and skills.
Source: Women in Photography: An interview with Victoria Hillman – srbphotographic.blog
Source: An introduction to Joby GorillaPods – srbphotographic.blog
Parenting & Lifestyle Blog – srbphotographic.blog
Source: 7 Ways To Introduce A Baby Sibling – monicaandandy.blog
Source: We Speak Dad, Too
Fashion & Lifestyle Blog – samgomez.blog
Source: VALENTINE’S DAY DATE OUTFIT IDEAS – samgomez.blog
Source: MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS AND GOALS -samgomes.blog
Malaysia Travel,Fashion & Lifestyle Blog – melaniesaw.blog
Source: Things I’ve learnt in 2017 – melainesaw.blog
Here is another few bloggers that enjoying the .blog domain.
Let’s look at Malaysia’s famous fashion bloggers. Not only do they have an Instagram account, but they also run a blog with numerous fans who follow their stories & lifestyle.
Tips: Find out your favorite color tone, make your blog’s interface balanced and harmonious!
Your preferred .COM/.MY domain name has already been taken? Check out your preferred domain name .BLOG extension here!
Holla! Good day everyone! Yes, we are here to announce the February winners for Site of the Month Awards (SOTM). As usual, it’s always challenging to judge each submission and decide the winners.
Source: We Speak Dad, Too
