Finally, my blog on the new hosting is up. I’m grateful to WordPress, the migration was rather easy. It took me about 4 hours to get everything back to the way it was. If you had faced problems accessing the blog, again, I’m sorry.
The hard thing was, for the past couple of days, was to compare hosting plans. So, I’ve decided to give a little insight to those who was like me, trying to decide which hosting to go to.
1. Price. To me, this is the most important. It’s like buying everything else, you have to have a budget. Set a range of acceptable price first, if you don’t know, ask a couple of your friends or family. Once you have a range, then it’ll be easier to shop. In my case, my range was between RM 50 – RM 150. You’ll get plenty of choices that fall in that range.
2. Specifications. Once you have a list of hosting packages from different hosting provider, you’ll pretty much be able to list down the specification of the hosting package. To me, the three most important spec are the Disk Space, Memory, and Bandwidth. This can be vastly different from one hosting to another.
3. Reliability & Support. I’m not running a multi-national business or anything that gives out thousands of ringgit in return, so I put this as number 3. For some websites that generates cash by the minute, this could be their top priority. How to decide on reliability and support? Just google and read the customer’s review. That should give you enough idea on how reliable the service is. According to webhosting.info, Exabytes seems to have the larges market share in Malaysia, so that should say how reliable their servers are.
4. Extras. Extras to me mean, what I don’t need but would like to have. My extras was, number of add-on domains, promotional free stuff, coupons, etc.
So with that, I managed to compile a short list of hosting sites for you to look at. The list is short cuz I got tired trying to decide after looking at the 20th hosting site. I’ve decided to go with DataKL. So far, the service has been prompt (I get replies to my questions via email within 10 minutes), the setup was easy (I was moving from a cPanel to another cPanel), and the payment was a breeze.
Good luck!
|
Company Name |
Price RM |
Space |
Bandwidth |
Add Onn Domain |
Extras |
Spec |
RAM |
| Exabyte |
199 |
10GB |
50GB |
10 |
Google Adwords Credit RM100 | Intel Pentium D or 2 x Dual Core Xeon | 2048MB |
| DataKL |
130 |
10GB |
50GB |
6 |
Coupon Code 25OFF for 25% off first year | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz | 4GB |
| Jdany |
80 |
100MB |
1GB |
Unlimited |
Dual AMD OpteronTM Processor 248 | 8GB | |
| Internet-Webhosting |
80 |
2GB |
20GB |
5 |
Intel Pentium D CPU 3.06 GHz | 4GB | |
| Mesra Hosting |
100 |
10GB |
50GB |
1 |
Dual Xeon 2.6 533MhZ Intel Processor | 2GB – 8GB | |
| Eternal Solutions |
100 |
10GB |
30GB |
1 |
Free SEO worth USD47 for higher plans | Intel Pentium IV 2.4Ghz | 512MB |
| Webserver.com.my |
300 |
3GB |
10GB |
750 |
|||
| IPServerOne |
99 |
3GB |
30GB |
1 |
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| NetKL.com |
100 |
1.5GB |
20GB |
2 |
Monthly payments allowed, RM12/mo | ||
| NetKL.com |
60 |
400MB |
7GB |
1 |
Monthly payments allowed, RM6/mo | ||
| Webhosting |
330 |
2GB |
|
|
Intel Pentium 4 with SATA-based Hard Drives | ||
| MalaysiaHosting2u |
85 |
2.5GB |
40GB |
Unlimited? |
Lower fee if sign up for 2 years | ||
| MalaysiaHosting2u |
155 |
5GB |
50GB |
Unlimited? |
Lower fee if sign up for 2 years | ||
| MercuMaya.net |
68 |
5GB |
50GB |
1 |
Lower fee if sign up for 2 years | ||
| MercuMaya.net |
98 |
10GB |
100GB |
2 |
Free 1 year domain | ||
| Web Hosting malaysia |
140.67 |
400MB |
2GB |
|
Setup Fee | ||
| Surf7 |
90 |
5GB |
20GB |
20 |
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