Could anyone here provide me with more infomation about which webhosting company is best in Malaysia?

I am currently using mercumaya.net.

Thanks.

I am moving over to the software section. You might get a better respond there !

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i used eternal solution. might switch to the one lowyat.net is using

It all depends on what is your definition for the best hosting:
- Best uptime?
- Best customer support?
- Best price?

Normally the three criterias don't come together; it all depends on which is more important for you.

Thanks.

my hosting server always down, it's not reliable enough, can anyone recommend me some very reliable hosting company/server? price doesn't matter if it's not too high..

one more question, what i have to do to switch from my current hosting server to another one? i already paid 2 years for the hosting and i think I still have about 9 months left for the service.

thanks in advance for your advice/opinion.

just go for those campany has uptime guarantee one

You just need to run a full backup at your current control panel, then upload to the new provider to restore. Then change your domain dns. Is either you can transfer your domain to new provider or just leave it at the old provider first.

the bad thing is my provider website shows that 99% uptime guaranteed.. but that is not true, it is down almost every week..

ok, besides that, do i need to change the dns by myself or my new provider will do it for me? if i have to do it myself, how? thanks

If you have control panel of the domain then you can change by yourself, if not you have to ask them to change it.

is the 99.99% uptime guarenteed support with evidence?

For example mine is support with: http://www.giztech.com.my/server.php

To teq: Is the domain registered by yourself or the host? If it's by urself, you need to go to the control panel and change it yourself.

I hate hosts that goes out charge people with low prices and compromise their service or they simply just provide lousy hosting.

Currently my hosting website is undergoing some revamp. So if you guys need any hosting needs, feel free to pm me.

( I hope self promoting is allowed! Well, if it's not then i'm terribly sorry)

Hi john,
What do you mean by evidence? I don't see any evidence at:
http://www.giztech.com.my/server.php

Please enlighten me.

Thanks.

Hi michaelfoo, it does a online server check. And there's stat of the server. Like the 62 days uptime.

you are a webhost yourself?

Hi John,
Yes, I'm a hosting provider.

Frankly speaking, the uptime you mentioned doesn't tell you much about the server reliability. That's why we need Alertra, Websitepulse & Hyperspin.

Thanks.

Those are paid monitoring and alerting company regarding your server issues. Mine is a written script updated every few minutes. It shows the status of my server to my customers.

Well, i should say everyone is subjected to their own preferences.

Regards,
JohnTan

Hi john,
The server status page shows which service ports are online. We do have that in our customer portal. However, it should be hosted on an offsite server, which I hope for your case http://www.giztech.com.my/server.php is not monitoring the server, giztech.com.my.

As for the paid monitoring companies, they give visitors confidence. The reason is because Alertra & Websitepulse (I'm not too sure about Hyperspin) have a policy that the uptime log cannot be edited, regardless the problem is with their own monitoring server or the client's server. As such, the visitors as well as web hosting providers trust these companies a lot.

Furthermore, they generate user friendly uptime reports:- a quick glance tells you the uptime percentage of a server port monitored.

Thanks and I don't work for Alertra/Websitepulse, hehe...

btw michael, i just realised you study in talyors. Haha. You're my junior. The world is kinda small though. hahaz.

Hi John,
Is it? I studied in Taylor's as I did my CAL in Pre-Engineering there. 0201PE2 student. Graduated on June 2003. What about you?

Thanks

ps: Let's not get off topic

oh. Aren't you born in the year of 88?

Well, like i said everyone is subjected to their own preferences. For me and many other webhosts, we prefer this script.

Regards,
JohnTan

Yup, it's up to the web hosting provider to choose which to use. I was just introducing a more preferred method by the WHT and SGWHT community (Sad to say MYWHT isn't active)

Nope, how I wish I was born as a genius to skip school so that I can finish my CAL at 15 (if my calculation is correct) I'm just an ordinary student who went through all the academic years without skipping. Thanks for your interest on me, by the way


ps: I believe the mods have their eyes on every single thread, better stop before we get warned.

haha. yup. You got a point there. Anyways, I think something need to be done to raise the standards of Malaysia webhosts. I've seen too many cases of poor service or server maintainece.

Regards,
JohnTan