Jun 12 2010
I conducted my first experiment yesterday. The aim was to identify problems in my experiment and not getting results yet. But, while running the experiment, I can do some multitasking in my laptop 
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Sorry, I know the quality of the video is poor. I took it from my Sony Erickson K810i. Maybe, later I’ll record it from my Panasonic Lumix digital camera instead.
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Apr 03 2010
I believe this is one of the most important turning points in my online curricular @ business activities. I have just switched to an international hosting provider, hostgator.com. This is my 5th hosting company after the other 3. Let’s put some name on those hosting companies: A, B, C, Jomhosting.net and Hostgator.com.
What happen to the 1st hosting company, A?
It was a local hosting company, very good, reliable, good support and professional. As far as I can remember I used their service for 2 years plus. It stated to me clearly that I cannot run a forum. That’s fine and that’s why I got myself hosting B because I wanted to run a chemical engineering forum. I hosted some blogs on it until around 2009, where that time I faced some huge downtime when all my blogs was claimed to consume a large amount of their resources. It affected my income up to some level. Luckily I have some profitable blogspot.com blog that are running online. I was puzzled because I know I don’t have that much traffic and my niche wasn’t that popular ~ chemical engineering!!! I asked for further clarification and details on which specific blog(s) or page(s) really created the problem. They can’t produce the report to me. However, they recommended me to transfer to another hosting and that was when I migrated to hosting C. Hosting A administrator helped and guided me to transfer to hosting C.
What happen to the 2nd hosting company B?
I got myself a domain and hosting from this small but quite well known hosting company among Malaysian bloggers. The owner of the hosting also runs a famous forum which attracted those who desire to make money online. My reason for taking hosting B was just to run a forum. I managed to run a forum using a platform that is easily installed via fantastico in the cpanel. Unfortunately, after one year and after having 300 plus members inside the forum, it was hacked. The poor forum cannot be accessed at all despite of staying at PR2 after merely a year. I consulted the hosting admin. He recommended me to back-up and re-install the forum. I tried but I don’t know whether I did the right thing or not. I was so forum and ftp naïve. I got frustrated and wasted a lot of time meddling with backing-up and installing the forum repeatedly. Frustrated, I asked for the hosting admin assistance. He claimed he tried but after that can’t do anything about it. So, the forum when history!!! I was so disappointed and that was a very expansive lesson for me.
What happen to the 3rd hosting company, C?
Hosting C just started its business and offers cheap hosting packages. The support was superbly efficient and I liked it very much. I was happy to use hosting C service. I use this hosting because I want to have a back up for hosting A. I don’t want to have all blogs in one hosting, ie hosting A. So, I created few more blogs incorporate it in hosting C. When I experienced problem with hosting A in 2009 (as stated above), I also got a second hosting C account. They helped me and I immediately got all my blogs from hosting A online instantaneously. Unfortunately, hosting C cannot maintain their outstanding services and slowly I experienced problems at the end of last year. That’s when I searched for a replacement for hosting C and after a brief searched, I opted hosting D.
Hosting D = Jomhosting.net
After experiencing some problem with hosting C, I saw a good promotion from Jomhosting.net. Since I know the owner, I tried using his service. So far my blogs are doing fine with Jomhosting.net for 7 blogs of mine hosted there. This hosting company provides substantial cheap for newbie. If you are newbie (new to blogging and wanted to use a cheap hosting), you can try it out. Check the hosting packages here.
Hosting E = Hostgator.com
This is the latest hosting that I purchased yesterday and all 13 of my blogs were successfully transferred here. I have no complains or what so ever. I think it is the best hosting in the planet. Although the price is slightly expansive than the local hosting company packages, I don’t care. I need a reliable hosting provider with dedicated 24/7 support who can answer/respond to me immediately. Last month and up to yesterday, I experienced weird downtime on 2 of my blogs including this blog, cyza sector. I have been asking around about the intermittent problem which occurred, but there was no conclude answer on solving the problem. After transferring to hostgator.com, I believe the problem has been solved by hostgator.com and I’m glad. I hope Cyza Sector and my Heat Exchanger blog will continue up operating without downtime. I’m proud to host my blogs with hostgator.com. I signed up for the baby plan which requires me to pay recurring $9.95 per month via paypal. The beautiful part of this package:
I’m going to use the free $50 adwords to market one of my blogs. Oh, isn’t that great? If you have low budget, you can choose their cheapest plan which is only $4.95 per month. Try it out and chat with their support. You can easily clear any of your doubts after chatting with them.
Conclusion
Selecting and after that using a hosting for your blog and website is very crucial. You need to choose the most reliable hosting. If you are new, you can try the cheaper hosting packages, probably from local hosting. Get use to hosting, cpanel, and ftp. At this stage, a newbie may have at least 1 blog or the most 2 or 3 blogs. But, once the blogs and websites have grown and start generating income, you may want to protect that.
Hosting operation is not under you control, but you have the power to choose which reliable hosting to erect your online real estate. Having a dozen or 2 dozens of blog generating cash with unreliable hosting is like suicide. When the hosting is down, you can’t even communicate with the hosting support and that is very unfortunate. You will lose your income. The advertisers will get mad and shout at you.
Check out this analogy…
Imagine you owned an oil refinery and the production requires electricity to power up the pumps, heating, pressure etc. Your production is smooth and meets the daily and monthly target. You profit margin of selling oil from your refinery is very impressive. You give out 5 months bonus to all your staffs at the end of the year. Then, one sweet day, while the plant is running, the electricity supply (@ hosting service) was cut-off. You can’t do anything and your refinery (@ your blogs) is experiencing bad downtime. No oil is produced (@ your income). Worse… the supply won’t be back until 1 week due to a major explosion at a nearby power station. They can’t repair the problem faster because they are lack of manpower (@ hosting company not enough technical support). You are helpless. You can’t produce oil. Your customers (@ advertisers) get angry because the oil you promised them is not delivered.
Although this is not a perfect analogy, but you can just imagine and picture that.
Moral of the story
When your online business is getting bigger, get the most reliable hosting. I don’t see anything else but hostgator.com.
Feb 28 2010
Will this inspire you to work harder?
I saw the news at 8pm and 12 in the morning and could not help it to check on how this guys managed to be so damn rich… If you analyze, you will see most of them are senior citizen categories. But check out those in their 40’s… In that category, I only know Tony Fernandez of Air Asia and the son of Tun Mahathir. Wow… they are so successful financially in that age group. What about me… What about you?
Nov 01 2009
I’m not going to be available online for at least 40 hours from tomorrow morning. Reason… read the post title. I’ll be attending the 1st German-Singaporean Research Symposium on Catalysis from 2-3 November 2009. The first day of the symposium will be filled with numerous researchers presentation on various catalysis subjects.
The second day will be more interesting. We’ll be having a technical visit to Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences in Jurong Island and also to Nanyang Technological University.
Will be back at home on Tuesday evening, and continue work on Wednesday.
Nov 01 2009
It has been so long since my last top commentators announcement. Well, here I’m back and to keep everything short and sweet, here are the top commentators for last month:
Thanks a lot for making my blog lively with your comments.
p/s: Superb news guys … I’m coming up with my own free report/ebook soon. I’m not going to reveal it now. Please stay tune to get the updates and the launching for my very own first product.
Jun 10 2008
As I watched the news, I found out something really interesting… Celcom competion 100 Toyota Camry in 100 days are stopped? Don’t really know why, but a group of religious and experts council had a meeting and decided to stop the competition for further investigation.
Personally, I liked Toyota Camry, but I have not entered the contest. But, it’s OK. I don’t have any respond about the issue. However, it’s very lucky for the 8 winners so far who managed to snatched the wonder car…
Check out the explanation from Ustaz Zaharuddin.
May 08 2008
This will be very brief… I’m so exhausted…
1. I appreciate various ideas on what should my wife buy me for my birthday… However, I still don’t know what I want. I already informed my wife to hold on and don’t buy anything yet. I will have to think of it first. However, the most important thing that I want is for everybody to be healthy and carry on live peacefully
2. I created a group in FACEBOOK. I know a lot of you might not be interested because it is related to my niche: Chemical Engineering…. The group is called “Chemical Engineer Rocks!“… so if you are interested to join, you are welcome aboard . I created the group yesterday night, and 24 hours later (now), I have 7 new members. Wow…
3. We just had our first proof reading customer few days ago. My other half have digested and proof read the documents and returned it back to the client within 2-3 days only. We are very pleased with our first task and we are looking forward to serve more clients. If you have any documents, reports, technical paper, thesis or anything that you want us to proof read, or translate BM-BI-BM… please, don’t hesitate to contact us….
4. I’m drowned in seas of internet marketing information… and I don’t have enough time to consume all those informations. I wish I can take a month break from work, stay at home and read those e-books, watch those videos and listen to the audios…
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May 06 2008
My 32nd birthday is just around the corner. To be exact, it is this Friday. At work, colleagues have been asking what I’m planning to do this weekend? I said, nothing unusual, perhaps spending time with family and do some online learning I guessed. They were smiling and the way they smiled were really weird. After a moment, I realized that they noticed that my birthday is just 2/3 days ahead. To be honest, I forgot about my own birthday. Just now, my wife asked me, what I want for my birthday…? I answered spontaneously, I don’t know yet.
But then, while reading yesterday’s New Straight Times (NST), I read a page of “Music on the Go” under the section “Tech & U“. The article was written by Rozana Sani and from her article I had better comprehension on what the hell is MP4 player, TV MP4, IPOD Nano and so on…. Frankly, I’m not really alert on this piece of gadget. However, suddenly, I thought, should this be a gift for me for my coming birthday.
I think it depends. If the video or movie player is very clear and accept the format ASF, AVI, 3GP, MP4, FLV, MPEG and others not frequently used such as MPE, MPG, DAT, RM, RMVB, then I think it can come in handy. Having those applications can allow me to clearly watch my internet marketing video collection and can enable me to view it with better display anytime anywhere? So, far, I’ve been using my Sony Erickson K810 to listen to audio internet marketing records. The videos in the other hand is not very clear. That’s why, having a clear video MP4 can help me learn anytime and anywhere I want on the move.
To add up the superiority of this MP4, it will be very cool if I can see TV inside it (portable television with an antenna and built in TV tuner). What should I consider…? I need some input from you guys… Should I ask for IPod Nano, or Ainol V200, or other MP4 players? Please advice…
Or if there is other interesting and useful present… please give me some idea…
May 04 2008
On a wonderful Sunday, somebody who happens to be my old time schoolmate tagged me with an unusual but unique tag. Well, that’s fine. Following are the weird rule of the tag:
These are rules :
1. Post YOUR photo wearing red, may it be red top, bottom, the least would be red accessories if u hate wearing red. If u can’t find one, u still have an option.Either post your significant other’s photo or your child’s photo, if u have one.Of course, they should be wearing red.
2. Let us know the reason why u were wearing that particular day.Was it ur birthday? Is red ur fave color or was it the shirt that u first saw in ur closet that day?
At once I thought, it was kind of difficult… but then I remembered that I’m a red devil fan… So, that’s not hard at all… Instead of having a photo of myself covered with my red devil manchester united towel ONLY, I prefer to attached a less controversial family friendly photo…
And now, I’m want to spread the red devil evil tag to Blogjer, Azwan, Arm, Catzer and Syam Vangardx.
