Swordie Bloggie

Suddenly there are so many offers for webhosting… even locally! When I said locally, I mean locally as in the same town I’m working at… Probably offering web hosting is a good business nowadays… 😛 Recently I posted about a cheap dedicated servers hosting offer which I missed… coz the offer was very limited 🙁

Well… the good offer is over and I missed it, so I have to stick with whatever my current managed hosting giving me until there will be another good offer in the future… hopefully there will be another one… Or hopefully, in the near future, someone going to build an enterprise-class facility for server colocation here locally… who knows?… so that I can rent a rack and put all my servers there… 😆 😉

Anyways, I’m satisfied with what I have right now… but it just that access to my sites gets very slow sometimes… but that could be caused by the undersea internet cables get snapped sometimes… which usually happened when there is earthquake undersea or tsunami.

I was surprised to received two out station calls today… about 10 minutes apart… and it was quite early… around 9.30am… I just woke up at that time… 😛 The first call was from a friend… asking about paintball… 😛 And he was in Kelantan I think… playing woodsball… :p He never play woodsball, so he needed some advice… errr… I’m not really a player… I’m more on taking paintball photos… 😛

The second call was more interesting… the call is from Penang… the lady on the other side was speaking quite low… and sounded scared… emm… she wanted to talk to me… so I said, yea sure… then she started talking about my web hosting… emm… ok… she explained that she only called to remind me that the domain I registered is going to expire next week… oh no… I just remember… it’s not mine but my cousin’s… I helped him to register two domains for his law firm about two years ago… one with .com and another with .com.my. And registering the .com.my was not easy… it was crazy… to be able to register the .com.my domain, we have to provide all kind of documents like company registration and some other stuff which I don’t remember… yea, it was a bit tedious… but we manage to do it at last.

Anyways, I told her it’s a bit surprising that she called to remind me about that coz usually I received the reminder through email… she said they just want to make sure I receive the notice of the domain’s expiry since next week gonna be a long holiday… yea, next week is going to be long holiday for the Chinese New Year… so I said thanks, and I will renew it immediately.

When I registered the two domains two years ago, it came with a hosting plan… not a managed hosting but a shared hosting. Actually it depends what you need the hosting for… since law firm only need to display static pages most of the time and no online transactions, shared hosting is good enough… But after a year… the first year… I terminated the hosting package and continue renewing the two domains. Then I add the domains into my unlimited hosting package… yea, I have the unlimited hosting package where I can add as many domains as I like… 😀 Unless my cousin’s want to have his own dedicated server, he can opt for colocation package… he can have full control of the server… but for now, I let his domains added into my hosting… 😀