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Today, received a webhosting promo mail… the offer was so amazing that I have to talk to their online chat support…

Imagine for just RM199 per month you can get a dedicated server hosting… that is bloody cheap coz the average price in the market is RM399 per month!!!

The shared server hosting I’m having is about RM499 a year… compared to the hot deal offer… RM199 x 12 = RM2388 a year… yea, that’s RM1,889 extra a year… but shared server hosting is like living in a dormitory with 300 people inside… while dedicated server hosting is like living in your own bungalow with your own access road… Not like the shared server hosting where you have to share the stairs, the bathroom, the toilet, etc… 😛

The offer is for a limited time only… should I get that?…

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… 😀

Time to renew the hosting and the domain again… and some other domains too, but not at the same time of course… coz I did not buy all of them at the same time. This gonna be the 4th year… and I have changed the hosting package once… for a better deal of course… and so far I’m satisfied with my web hosting.

Originally I bought a normal package… which has limited storage, bandwidth, database, park domain, email size, etc… coz I started with one domain only. So when I started to register more domains without hosting plan with them, then I realize the hosting package I have is not enough… not suitable… I can’t do addon domains… I can only park domains… coz the hosting I have is Windows… which has loads of limitation… everything need to pay…

To solve my problem, I change my package to Linux… and it is the Linux unlimited hosting package… unlimited addon domain, park domain, storage, bandwidth, database, etc… but of course it is slightly more expensive… but I’m satisfied… everything with it are unlimited… 😀

It is almost at the end of the year, and I’m sure for some it is time to renew their webhosting… and for those who do not have any website yet, it is time to seriously to window shop around for a good webhosting provider and hopefully be able to launch your new website when the new year comes.

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