As most of you might have noticed, we recently migrated our servers out of Jaring to the AIMS datacenter. There were two primary reasons why we made the option to move.

1. Jaring's new revised prices meant we had to pay about 300% more compared to what we were previously paying. With a peak bandwidth utilization hitting about 25MB/s, that was a huge increase in costs.

2. AIMS sells bandwidth that is connected directly to the Malaysian Internet Exchange. By selling local and international bandwidth separately, we are able to get more bandwidth at a lower cost. Its still an increase in costs, but not as much as if we remained in Jaring.

The migration also takes into account our future plans to provide streaming locally produced videos and media content via Lowyat.TV. By having the option to purchase local bandwidth for a cheaper cost, we should be able to roll out more media intensive content over the next few months.

The migration however isn't without problems. At the moment, there seems to be some minor connectivity and routing problems between the datacenter and some of the major ISP's. We are aware those on Maxis broadband connection are experiencing lag to the site due to routing issues, and TMnet users have experienced intermittent breakdowns from time to time.

Rest assured that we are working with the service providers and the datacenter to fix the issues as soon as possible.