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Most people would promote US based company, but think about the market you are targeting. If you are targeting the local market, stick to local hosting companies. See what happens when Streamyx screwed up. All access to international sites became slow. It is still f*cking slow currently.
Another thing is, you don’t need PayPal or a credit card to pay for hosting with a local provider. You don’t even need online banking. Just go to the nearest cash deposit machine, make your payment, done.
Regardless which ClickBank fast track package you choose, either RCB or Pakej Video Youtube (read the review of Pakej Video Youtube Lisa Hilmi), if you are looking for a hosting company in Malaysia, I would like to propose (and promote) the companies below.
Just A Short Review of a few Hosting Providers in Malaysia
NetKL
This is my 3rd year with NetKL. No problem except on a few days last year, but they compensate all their users by giving 30% off on renewal. It was worth it if compared to the money I made from my blogs hosted with them. At RM55/year for domain and hosting, for 400MB of disk space and 7GB of bandwidth, what is there to complain? If you are only looking for a domain, it is only RM29.90 at NetKL. However, you may need to add another RM3.60 if you are using blogger for hosting or if your are using your domain with Adsense for Domain. I have written about setting up AFD with NetKL, you can find the post here.
Fivio
This is one of the most stable. Took an offer when there was a promotion of RM50/year for domain and hosting. At that time, Fivio was also an advertiser on one of my blog. Initially I thought of only using Fivio for testing, but now two of my support sites are with Fivio. I made some money by marketing their affiliate and it’s enough to renew the hosting package for another 2 years. The current Odin package at RM100 will give you 6GB of disk space, 20GB of bandwidth and 18GB of backup space.
ServerFreak
Another good hosting provider. Fast support. Azwan.My is hosted at ServerFreak. They do provide hosting at a US server if you prefer to host yours there like mine. Since most of my other blogs receive more traffic from the US, the whole account is now hosted on a US server 
Their cheapest package is RM50 currently for 500MB of disk space and 10GB of bandwidth without domain. Use this coupon code 10peroff for 10% off for shared and reseller hosting.
Rawanaz [Update: 18/02/10] I have removed all my account from Rawanaz. The service is slow and support sometimes took more than 3 days to reply to the support ticket. 1 year is enough for me. Rawanaz is not recommended.
The newest from Malaysia and one of the cheapest. You can get a hosting package for as low as RM15 per year. Fit a student budget perfectly. The current promotion is the Hijrah package that comes with 4GB of disk space and 100GB of bandwidth for only RM50 without domain. Since it is very new, not much can be said except so far .. ok.
By the way, it may look like that I have a lot of blogs. No, I only maintain two or three regularly (which include this one). Some are only updated once a month and some are just minisites and landing pages which I recently setup for my affiliate products, which doesn’t require any update, but only fine tuning when required.
Regardless which company you decide to host your blog on. Remember to backup your blogs regularly. Once in two weeks should be sufficient. Once for the stagnant ones.
Tags: cheap hosting, fivio, netkl, rawanaz, serverfreak · 28 comments · Leave a response »
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Cyza · March 19, 2009 @ 3:22 PM
Ishk….baguih betul information ni…aku antara pembeli awal RAWANAZ…hehe…
budeen · March 19, 2009 @ 3:25 PM
i just backup my blog 2 days ago via cpanel.. the .tar file was downloaded & stored to my C..
then i dont know what to do.. hehe..
btw, i’m with netkl.. sometimes i cant access my blog & it shows “resolving host”.. i try clearing my cache but sometimes it doesnt work.. i try google it but to no avail.. i dont know if this is because the hosting company or my laptop.. i think is my laptop coz i can access my blog from my colleagues..
azwan · March 19, 2009 @ 4:07 PM
@Zaki
I bought through your affiliate id
@Budeen
you will only need to use it when there’s a problem. no problem, just keep it.
So far, i don’t face any issue with NetKL this year. You should check with their support team.
Cyza · March 19, 2009 @ 4:13 PM
Yes, I know, Thanks for the support. Aku pun dah lama tak tgk account aku kat situ…
Aku pun belum betul2 pakai rawanaz punya hosting due to time constraint…
Fadhlullah Abd Rahman · March 19, 2009 @ 4:54 PM
Salam,
Terima kasih kerana review Fivio.com. Untuk pengetahuan, promosi free domain untuk ODIN masih berjalan sehingga 31 March 2009.
Nice blog Azwan
Salam,
azwan · March 19, 2009 @ 5:04 PM
@Cyza
You should start concentrating to the ones that is making money
@Fadhlullah
Thanks for the update.
|1f34|-|1r3 · March 19, 2009 @ 6:55 PM
just to be clear, i don’t think the last streamyx screw up only affects international links, it also affects local links…even tm.net site can be opened and their DNS servers can’t be pinged!
|1f34|-|1r3 · March 19, 2009 @ 6:58 PM
@budeen most probably it’s because your local DNS setting on your computer. you can set static DNS resolve on your computer to fix that…contact me and i can guide you
azwan · March 19, 2009 @ 7:50 PM
@|1f34|-|1r3
yes, some local sites are affected too. i exaggerated
@|1f34|-|1r3 & Budeen
if it works. do a post about it, share it with everyone else.
|1f34|-|1r3 · March 19, 2009 @ 10:13 PM
waiting for budeen to confirm about it
KNizam · March 19, 2009 @ 10:28 PM
aku pakai serverfreak. so far so good. dah sekali kena power punya ddos. tuh yang kena transfer ke usa. hehe so far support power. memang selalu balas ticket aku.
aku nyer blog dah 3 kali down. masa olympic, masa ge and masa euro.
tapi seb baik cepat up. hehe
budeen · March 20, 2009 @ 12:22 AM
@ @|1f34|-|1r3,
just sent you email on your contact-me tab..
azwan · March 20, 2009 @ 12:42 AM
@KNizam
kau dah famous tu sebab kena ddos aje
azwan · March 20, 2009 @ 12:45 AM
Hey guys, if it works, don’t forget to post it. I’ll link to it.
alone · March 20, 2009 @ 6:34 AM
yeap. agree!
better to use local hosting. easy to pay, easy for seeking any help.
catzer · March 20, 2009 @ 12:03 PM
Kalau korang lebih focus pada market local mmg aku suggest 100% local hosting 1st sbb isu kelajuan internet di malaysia tidak secanggih disana. Tetapi untuk develop bisness international pun boleh juga gunakan local hosting tp aku tak berapa galakkan sbb aku masih terasa bius hampir 3 minggu dimana kita tidak boleh surf ke site international kerana isu gempa bumi dan kabel bawah laut rosak tu. Seram sei. Nasib baik site2 aku masa tu sume di oversea and alhamdulillah making money even pemiliknya tgh termenung tak dpt access.
Lagi satu kelajuan untuk site international penting. Dengan isu tmnet punya kabel yg selalu rosak tu, aku mmg lebih prefer site international aku di taburkan di server oversea. Meskipun ada juga yg aku letak di local tp aku akan pastikan ping server tu tak selembab mana.
Fadhlullah Abd Rahman · March 20, 2009 @ 2:20 PM
Salam,
Nak tambah, pasal takut salah maklumat. Yang cabel putus tuh bukannya milik TMNET. Ianya adalah international gateway.
Maka yang bertanggung jawap ialah international bandwidth provider bukannya TMNET.
Salam,
azwan · March 20, 2009 @ 10:39 PM
@Alone
ya .. you are right
@Catzer
there’s pro and cons, but for those who are just starting a local one is suitable just to get a feel of everything
@Fadhlullah
Salam
ya, maybe this time it’s not due to TMNet, but still TMNet’s services is still not good enough even though at the time when there’s no problem to the international gateway
bantingboy · March 21, 2009 @ 12:38 PM
just use netkl. Its great and i like it.
lankapo · March 28, 2009 @ 1:51 PM
aku plak dah lama pakai serverfreak..so far ok..support oleh sam tip top..
azwan · March 28, 2009 @ 4:41 PM
@BantingBoy
I use all the 4 above
@Lankapo
Sam memang cun. support ajelah … ha..ha..
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azwan · April 23, 2009 @ 9:04 AM
@Titan
Rawanaz on and off ada problem, that’s why although i use their service, but not for my main sites.
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Cikgurose · November 18, 2010 @ 2:02 AM
Looks like these are good web hosting companies in Malaysia. What do you think about Exabytes? They are very popular too I think.
I am actually looking for a cheap and good web hosting company. A little undecided now. Just now read about Serverfreak at this page http://hubpages.com/hub/ServerFreak-Malaysia-Web-Hosting
Now, I need some more recommendations before going for it. Thanks ya!