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 and reopen on January 3 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! 🙂
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Our speedy approval process, fast payout and minimum requirements allow you to Earn Well, Blog Well!
How to Advertise with Exabytes?
Steps
1. Our MINIMUM requirement is 350 unique visitors daily.
2. Submit a screenshot of your unique visitors for the past 2 months to [email protected], Google Analytics screenshot is preferred.
3. The approval process will take 5-7 working days.
4. After approval, we will prepare the banner script in 5-7 working days.
Terms and Conditions
1. Blog traffic must be mainly from Malaysia.
2. Payment will be made 6 weeks after the banner is up by bank transfer.
3. Payment will only be sent to bank accounts in Malaysia.
4. Advertising approval depends on blog traffic, traffic source, content niche and bounce rate.
As 2011 is almost coming to a close, let us cherish the precious moments in the past and welcome the brand new 2012 with open arms and plenty of excitements brought to you by Exabytes, such as the 3-Day Year End Domain Promo which sees prices of domains like .com/.net/.org/.info/.biz/.com.my/.net.my/.org.my and MANY MORE slashed to extremely low prices.
Once again, Exabytes wants to extend a million thanks for the support you’ve given to us. Check out the Discount Table below – This Way, Is How We Usually Reward Our Valuable Supporters!
Domains
Discounted Prices
.com/.net/.org/.info/.biz
RM32
.com.my/.net.my/.org.my
RM50
.ME
RM50
.CO
RM75
.sg
RM99
.com.sg
RM99
So don’t wait! Kick-start 2012 with your beautiful and much-desired domain names, and SAVE A BIG CHUNK before the inception of 2012!!
GRAB ONE NOW!! Promotion is only valid from December 28 to 30, 2011. The best and cheap domain registration in Malaysia is only for 3 days.
“Dashing through the snow In a one horse open sleigh O’er the fields we go Laughing all the way Bells on bob tails ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to laugh and sing A sleighing song tonight
Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way….”
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.
Exabytes Launched The Very First Full Fledged Cloud Hosting Service In Malaysia
Exabytes on December 13 launched the very first comprehensive cloud hosting service in Malaysia named “Hitting The Cloud” at Bangsar City Golf, Malaysia’s premier indoor golf entertainment venue.
12 Exabees together with 82 specially invited customers played the state-of-the-art golf simulator with the common aim of hitting their cloud targets which signified the readiness of customers to adopt cloud technology which was unarguably the future of websites, e-commerce and web hosting.
The “Hitting the Cloud” Launch started at 10.30am for guest registrations.
However, some of our VIP guests had arrived at City Golf at 10am.
At 11am sharp, CEO Chan Kee Siak officially kick-started the launch giving his keynote speech“What Is a True Public Cloud?”
In fact, cloud hosting also known as hosting in the cloud is the web hosting services delivered as a service rather than a product over the Internet which allows users to fully focus on their websites, eCommerce, products, profits, etc instead of hardware and its huge cost in upgrading.
It is also a technology that will soon replace the old idea of renting a server or shared hosting and is often described as “unlimited computing power – bandwidth, RAM, CPU power, storage, etc on demand” whenever needed by users.
Furthermore, Exabytes was delighted and proud to have Mr. Rafe Asznal, the representative from MDEC to make the second keynote address on MSC Cloud Initiatives.
MDEC is a corporation which leads and provides leadership for the development and implementation of key industry initiatives and programs in support of MSC Malaysia’s corporate goals.
Upon completion of Mr. Rafe’s keynote address, CEO Chan came to stage to present a souvenir in appreciation of his valuable support.
There, the event took a 30-minute break; many participants were seen networking and mingling freely among themselves and Exabees.
Some took the chance to visit the Cloud Demo counters set up by Exabees to know more about Exabytes Cloud Hosting.
Besides, the 30-minute break was also the time for “Hitting The Cloud Contest” in which participants were required to hit the golf ball to the longest range using the state-of-the-art golf simulator to become the winners.
Top 3 participants who managed to do so would receive vouchers sponsored by City Golf and Logitech Wireless mouse sponsored by Exabytes.
Before our participants got to experience the golf simulator, we were all delighted to have the host of the venue cum General Manager of City Golf, Mr. Daniel Franklin Gomez to demonstrate his exceptional golfing skills.
Subsequently, the audience shifted their attention to “Exabytes Cloud in Action”.
A Live Demo which was specially designed to give our users a picture on how Exabytes Cloud Hosting works, its flexibility and how can users scale their resource limit or computing power using Exabytes Cloud Control Panel.
Many participants were left impressed on how easy it was to manage their own cloud hosting accounts through Exabytes control panel.
The Live Demo was followed by Q&A session for participants to clear any lingering doubts they had on their mind. When the clock struck 1.15pm, the much anticipated Hitting The Cloud Contest Prizes Giveaway and Lucky Draw were underway.
A total of 20 gifts were given away, among them the grand prize of lucky draw Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus sponsored by Exabytes, limited edition gifts from OpenSRS which were couriered all the way from the US, limited edition gifts from Kaspersky and Google, limited edition keychains and pen drives from Exabytes, CityGolf vouchers sponsored by CityGolf Bangsar, 5 Starbucks Coffee vouchers and 5 Logitech Wireless Computer Mice sponsored by Exabytes.
Next, it was time to fill up our empty stomach. Lunch was served in buffet style and drinks such as soft drink and fruit juice were served bottomless.
Our participants started to roam around to make friends or improve their golfing skills at the golf simulator.
Event evaluation forms were also given to our participants for their valuable feedback.
And Limited Edition Exabytes Cloud T-Shirts were given away for free to further appreciate their comments and suggestions.
Finally, Exabytes Cloud Hosting Launch “Hitting The Cloud” concluded at around 3pm.
We at Exabytes wish to thank all committee members for their hard work, Mr. Rafe Asznal for his sharing and our beloved guest customers for their precious time and active participation.
We are happy that the event has served its purpose and given our participants a wonderful time and a better idea on cloud technology or cloud hosting.
Social Media Networking Convention, a must-attend event for Internet marketers, IT entrepreneurs, businessmen or people who simply wish to know more about the power of social media sites for eCommerce was held at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur City Centre on 9th of December 2011.
A grand scale IT event with a long list of famous and highly experienced invited speakers, it attracted thousands of people and Exabytes is too proud to contribute its part as the official cloud hosting consultant.
List of exhibitors was endless and it included some of the industry heavyweights such as Facebook, Nuffnang, Groupon Malaysia and many more.
Event highlights that stunned our participants included Social Media Shopping – The New Trend, Social Media & Fashion – The Twain Shall Meet, Marketing Through Social Media – Optimizing Resources with Right Channel Selection, Social Advertising – The Way to Go, Effective Blogging for Business, Integrating Social Media and Online Advertising, Integrating Social Media with CRM, Social Media and Cloud Computing – Convergence or Divergence, Harnessing Social Media Innovations for Corporate Objectives, Internet Trends, Digital Development and Online Behaviour in Malaysia.
To our great surprise, we found out, according to our ISO consultant, that the majority of ISO compliant working procedures and standardization were already in place at Exabytes.
However, we had not had the proper documentation to indicate our work flow, which was also of paramount importance to give Exabytes new employees a standard guide during training. In other words, our staff training was done orally with hands-on experience and practical guidance, still lacking a comprehensive written manual of working procedures that allows new staff to refer and read to understand more both during and after training.
From there, efforts to document all our standard working procedures kick-started.
Department managers drew out the process of each working procedure using flowcharts, described them in professional terms and filled out numerous forms after having regular meet-ups with team members and cross department meetings with managers.
The required forms and documentations included:
Approve Supplier List
Supplier Performance Evaluation Form
Corrective Action Request Form
NCP Database
Observation List
Audit Check List
Audit Plan
Customer Satisfaction Survey
Payment Received and Credit Handling
Domain Name Guideline
Refund Processing
Fraud Handling
Management Review Meeting Minute Template
etc
At the end of July, 2011, as all documentation of various departments were completed in time, we invited our ISO consultant to come once again to perform an internal audit in order to make sure everything was properly and correctly documented. Subsequently, some changes on documents were made and in early August, we were 100% already ready for the big day – the upcoming official audit by ISO.
August was the much anticipated month by Exabees! BM Trada, the ISO body in Malaysia came to perform the official audit.
Numerous interviews with various department managers were conducted by the persons from BM Trada, to investigate whether all facets of Exabytes and its working procedures were in compliance with the requirements of ISO.
The month of November was the month of celebration, as Exabytes was finally awarded ISO 9001:2008 Web Hosting Provisioning!! Once again, thank you to our ISO consultant and kudos to all Exabees for all the sweat and hard work everyone has put in for the past 10 years in making this a reality!
To you our blog readers who intend to get your own companies ISO certified as well, don’t hesitate. The process might be a little time consuming and bitter sweet, but eventually, it was definitely worth the effort!
As Exabytes was awarded the prestigious ISO (The International Organization for Standardization) Certification in November, in this blog post we will be sharing the experience, hard work and steps we have gone through in the process of obtaining ISO 9001:2008 Web Hosting Provisioning with our fellow blog followers who are thinking about getting ISO certified too for their companies or simply want to know more about the application process of ISO.
At Exabytes, it all started in early March, 2011 when the idea of getting certified was brought up and discussed several times. After some investigations into the idea, we decided to take the initiative to start getting ourselves prepared although then we didn’t have too much knowledge with regard to the requirements of ISO.
Exabees began by seeking every way to standardize, streamline and improve our various working procedures in client’s feedback handling, management, supplier selection, supplier performance, internal audit, control of records, corrective and preventive action, etc.
It took us 1-2 months to undergo serious self-evaluation and self-improvement on our system, before we were satisfied with the changes and improvements we had implemented. However, even after that, we were still unsure and wondering whether we had done enough and were well prepared for ISO.
Seeking to be more certain, by introduction we were approached by an ISO consultant who offered to help and gave us the necessary advice on working towards the application of ISO.
The helpful consultant set out to investigate every facet of Exabytes as well as every detailed working steps involved especially in Customer Service, Technical, Human Resource and Business Development department.
The investigation was completed in around one month, before we came to the moment of truth as to whether Exabytes needed major improvements and adjustments before we were able to be considered as ISO compliant.
With 10 years of persistent hard work, technical know-how and experience in web hosting, this month we at Exabytes are truly honored and elated to be awarded the prestigious ISO (The International Organization for Standardization) Certification which recognizes Exabytes’ internationally accepted professionalism, product reliability, strict working standard and management practice among others!
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations founded in 1947 and has headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
To meet the strict requirements of the certification, for the past one year Exabees especially managers of various departments have contributed a great deal of time and effort to the application process before we successfully obtained ISO 9001:2008 Web Hosting Provisioning.
Kudos to all Exabees for all the sweat and hard work everyone has put in for the past 10 years in making this a reality!
By the way, are you also thinking of getting your own company certified? Or do you simply want to know more about ISO certification? Next week, we shall be sharing with you our experience and the process of obtaining ISO 9001:2008 Certification.
MOFEW, Malaysia’s Online Fashion Entrepreneurs Weekend kick-started last weekend at the Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (MVEC) which was located within one of Malaysia’s most popular shopping mall – the Mid Valley Megamall and Exabytes as well as Easy.my were busy meeting eCommerce enthusiasts and explaining to them our ever captivating slogan “Starting your online store is as Easy as frying an egg” alongside a demo which gave them hands-on experience in building their own web stores and sell their products on Facebook as well as their web stores.
Our friendly and affable exhibition helpers Charlotte and Jasmine
MOFEW was a grand scale event which featured more than 80 online fashion entrepreneurs including the very famous Malaysia’s homegrown Amber Chia Academy established by the Malaysia’s most notable fashion model Amber Chia among others.
Attracting more than 50,000 visitors to the event which spanned for 3 days, highlights of MOFEW included free personal image, make-up and hair styling workshops, online business possibilities exploration workshops, live band performances, lucky draws and the valuable opportunity to network with fellow online entrepreneurs.
