Derek Ang

Providing Cheap Hosting For Locals!!

Recently i had bought a VPS ( Virtual Private Server) and its located in a datacenter at Cyber Jaya, in Malaysia. Cyberjaya is a new planned township with a science park as the core that forms a key part of the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia and this town aspires to be the “Silicon Valley of Malaysia”. Reason of buying this vps is due to some projects and i would also like to take the chance to learn server administration. It seems fun.

So, to make full use of the server, i will be offering hosting packages. This package will be ideal for locals as server is located in malaysia and thus server speed will fast. Here is the specs that i will be offering.

Diskspace: 400mb
Bandwidth: 10GB
You will also get cpanel, sql database, other stuff etc.
The cost will be $3.50 SGD per month only! Thats a real catch compared to other web hosting package offerred in singapore. I hope so

So if you are interested, do not hesitate to contact me at contact(at)derek-ang.com (replace the (at) with @)

Valuing Websites?

What do you think is the most important factor that makes a website valuable? Is it the design? Is it the features? In the past, whenever i see websites that are well-designed, and look professional i will have this mindset ” Wow! This website Must worth damn lot!”. After that, i learnt that most people value websites through the amount of revenue the website generates monthly, the amount of traffic that the website had, the business model etc. A typical example will be Youtube, which sold for 1.65 billion, if i am not wrong. And for your information, youtube is lossing millions for expenses to pay for their servers and why did google purchased it? I believe its due to its traffic and exposure that youtube has. Its been estimated that in America, every one of the americans watch at least one video from youtube everyday.

See the screenshot below that i had taken from craiglist.com

Looking at the site, it look simples, it look plain, basically its just a site with hyperlinks. Guess how much it worth? It is estimated that it is worth 2.4 billion USD! So the what i am trying to protray with this post is “Do not guide the book by its cover” Sames apply to people as well

Rambo 4 is out in cinemas

2008 is a year with full of great movies coming out. E.g Rambo IV, CJ7, Kungfu dunk, Kurosagi, Iron man, and many more. Rambo 4, starring Sylvester Stallone, is finally out in cinemas now! For those of you who are Sylvester stallone’s movie fans, this is the show that you cannot missed! I heard that its Sylvester Stallone’s last action packed movie and rambo IV marks the ending series of the “Rambo” franchise. For your infomation,  Rambo IV holds the record with the most kills out of the entire Rambo series, with 236 kills and an average of 2.59 kills per minute, so if you like killing, you must not miss this movie. LOL.

Here’s a trailer of Rambo IV, you can watch it below:

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Well, currently i am lying on my bed, drinking a glass of hot milo, using my laptop’s  remaining battery life to blog about this post, and at the same time, i am i am watching Man In Black 1 in ppstream. LOL, i can really multitask right? My life during my Industrial Attachment is really sianz(boring). Everyday, i reached home around 7+ pm, take a bath, eat my dinner, watch ppstream for a while and then sleep. My life is getting %$#%#@.

Today, i saw a malay girl while taking bus 72 after work. That malay girl look like “HORIKITA MAKI” LOL!! Yes, i mean maki. From my detailed analysis, lol, she look around 60% like maki. WTF? For those of you who do not know horikita maki, below is some of her pics

Have a nice day everyone : Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Buying / Selling Domain Names?

Since the advent of internet, billions of domains had been registered and billions of website had been developed. Over these years, Buying/Selling domain names has actually become a profession.

Sounds easy right? You bought one domain e.g example.com for $50 dollars and sold it for $100 dollars and you earn a profit of $50. It may be easy in the past when the market is unsaturated. But today, i believed that the domain market is becoming more saturated and saturated as most of the “premium names” are registered. One will needs to take alot of time to research for keywords etc.

More domain extension are also available, such as .net, .org, .info, .mobi and the recently .asia and many more.

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Below are the Top Domain sales :

Amount         Year   Domain
$12,000,000 2006 sex.com (est) 
$9,500,000 2007 porn.com
$7,500,000 2006 diamond.com
$7,500,000 1999 business.com
$5,500,000 2003 casino.com
$5,000,000 2002 asseenontv.com
$5,000,000 1999 korea.com
$3,500,000 1996 worldwideweb.com
$3,350,000 1999 altavista.com
$3,300,000 1999 wine.com
$3,000,000 2007 creditcheck.com
$3,000,000 1999 eshow.com
$3,000,000 2006 vodka.com
$3,000,000 1999 loans.com
$2,750,000 2004 creditcards.com
$2,500,000 2000 dotnology.com
$2,500,000 2000 tom.com
$2,200,000 1999 autos.com
$2,200,000 1999 coupons.com
$2,100,000 2007 computer.com
$2,000,000 2000 britain.com
$2,000,000 2000 celebrities.com
$2,000,000 1999 express.com
$1,900,000 2000 savings.com
$1,800,000 2007 seniors.com
$1,600,000 2006 branson.com
$1,500,000 2000 deposit.com
$1,500,000 2006 cameras.com
$1,500,000 2007 tandberg.com
$1,500,000 2000 fly.com
$1,500,000 1999 marketingtoday.com
$1,320,000 2003 men.com
$1,250,000 2007 vista.com
$1,200,000 2000 feedback.com
$1,180,000 2007 scores.com
$1,120,000 2007 chinese.com
$1,100,000 2004 mercury.com
$1,030,000 1999 wallstreet.com
$1,020,000 2005 fish.com
$1,000,000 2007 iphone.com

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Instead of just buying/selling domains, companies like Sedo.com offered services such as domain parking. So what is domain parking? Heres an explanation. The domain owner pointed the nameservers of their domains(e.g www.example.com) to Sedo. So when visitors visit the domain name(www.example.com), they will be brought to Sedo parking webpage. This webpage mainly contain advertisments and once visitors clicked on the advertisements, the domain owner will be paid.

He Make The Impossible Possible

I have started this blog with the intention of motivating and inspiring myself, to keep me going and going. Just recently, i learnt of one guy who inspire and motivates me. This guy makes the impossible, possible. And unfortunately, he is ”different” for us, normal people. He…….. He is born with NO Arms, and NO Legs, but however, he managed to do things that some of us might not have done.  His determination, his strong will, and his spirit is what that inspire us. He, is Nick Vujicic.

Nick Vujicic is an  motivational speaker and the director for “Life Without Limbs”. He talk about his life, how he move ons, and how he succeed in life. With no limbs, we, people may thought, he will not be able to do things that normal people can do, such as writing, swimming, playing drum etc. But, THIS GUY PROVES THE WORLD WRONG!!. He writes with his mouth, he can swims, and he can play drum (with his deformed leg).

 

I am really impressed by this guy’s determination and spirit. And, by looking at his achievements makes me feels “inferior”. His determination and spirit is what i think we should learn from. Unlike most of us, his life is full of hardship and difficulties and he managed to overcome those. Normally, most of us give up due to hardship or difficulties and yes, I am one of those that give up easily. If he can do it, why can’t us?

See one of his videos here :

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To learn more about him, you can visit his website at www.lifewithoutlimbs.org  Trust me, you will be impressed and inspired by him too.

 

Pictiger.com Sold For $175,000

If you are active in sitepoint or digitalpoint forum recently , you might had already heard of this. Pictiger.com is sold for $175,000 through sitepoint marketplace. Congrats to nikolaalx(dp member). Pictiger.com is a image hosting community whereby user can register, upload and share images.

Personally, i have created an account with Pictiger to test out its features and i can say it “rocks”. It has a professionally web 2.0 designed website, with some ajax functionality when uploading images. It is also unique compared to other image hosting websites. I have a short chat with “nikolaalx” this afternoon and found out that Pictiger.com was actually established 2 years ago. “nikolaalx” is currently only 23 years old which mean he started Pictiger.com at the age of only 21 years old.

Well, i believed many of you guys, including me are inspired by”nikolaalx”. While surfing digitalpoint forum today, i noticed alot of people are selling image hosting site, selling ebooks on how to create a profitable image hosting sites again. “nikolaalx” has definitely build up the trend of image hosting sites. LOL. I am also thinking of starting mine too .

All the best to “nikolaalx”!

 

Why Naked Girl does not need to pay bus fare?

Anyone know why naked girl does not need to pay bus fare? LOL? Heres the story… … There’s a bus, the first girl, wearing t shirt boarded the bus and she need to pay 90 cents. The second girl, wearing mini skirt boarded the bus and she only need to pay 45 cents. The third girl, wearing bikini boarded the bus and she need to pay 20 cents. The last girl, naked, boarded the bus and does not need to pay any bus fare. Anyone knows why? LOL.. Because she has bus concession. Arghh… are you freezing? LOL?

Heres another one, what type of person, does not need to see a doctor when is sick or not feeling well? The answer is blind guy, because he can’t see the doctor.. LOL.

Mr Lim need to go to storey 50 via a lift to reach his office, but why did Mr Lim pressed storey 40 and walk up 10 stairs in order to go his office instead of pressing 50 straight away? The answer is because Mr Lim is too short, he cannot reach the storey 50 button.

Well, i guess you guys are freezing. So i think i have to stop. Today is a typical day for me, as usual, went to expo for my IAP in the day. I have 17 days more… Frankly speaking, i think IAP is kinda waste of time. I rather study in school. I guess we can learn more in school. I hate working life. Its so SIANZ ( boring). Its kind of strange, when i was studying, i feel like working, when i was working, i feel like studying. Do you have the same problem as me? LOL.

I have been reading eugene’s blog and come across his post regarding “No Arms! No Legs! No Worries!” I am inspired by this guy called “Nick Vujicic”. He is born with no legs and arms, but however, he did not give up, he did not blame god or heaven for his misfortune, instead, he overcome his difficulties and faced them strongly. He excel in his work, has a bachelor degree and is now a popular motivational speaker. Find out more by visiting Eugene’s blog.

I need to sleep now. Have sweet dreams…

How useful is Ping.sg for increasing your blog traffic?

Have you been using Ping.sg as a tool to increase traffic to your blog? Recently, i have been experimenting out with Ping.sg to see if it really works? and my conclusion is “Yes!” it works. Ping.sg is a web 2.0 meta blog community, something like a social bookmarking site like digg where people can “ping” or “pong” blog entries that they found interesting. Personally, i think its a great local website, and in fact, i visited Ping.sg every morning when i am working in expo.

Below are the traffic details of my blog from launched till now. From the image, you can noticed there’s a peak in the graph. And most of the traffic on that day comes from Ping.sg. Therefore, i can conclude that  Ping.sg is a great tool for increasing your blog traffic. You just need to have an “Interesting” entry.

For those of you who have been using Wordpress script for your blog and have no idea on how to use Ping.sg for your blog, you will find the following information useful. Just follow the step by step guide below!

Step 1 : Go to http://www.ping.sg and sign up for an account and activate it.

Step 2 : Go to http://www.ping.sg/myblogs or you can navigate through the left navigation.

Step 3 : Click on “Add a blog” button and type in your details including the blog feed url. (Important) This is how Ping.sg get your entries.

Step 4: Did you see a “Update Now” button? Everytime you update your blog, you have to go log in to Ping.sg to update it. So, you find it very troublesome? You can also automate the process by using the XML-RPC update service.

Step 5: If you are using wordpress, log in your wordpress admin dashboard panel. Navigate to Options > Writing and scroll down to the bottom of the page.  You will see a Update Services section.

Step 6: Go to http://ping.sg/myblogs, get your XML-RPC url (circled in red), paste it in the text field as shown in the screenshot above and click on “Update Options”.

Thats it! Everytime whenever you posted an entry, Ping.sg will automatically update it and you will not need to manually login into the Ping.sg account to click on the “Update Now” button. That will save you time.

If you find this post useful, feel free spread it around. Just don’t forget to provide a link back to here

5 Simple Steps to Improve Your Internet Speed

Have not been blogging for the past few days because i could not find the time to blog. Kinda busy recently.. Well, tomorrow is monday again, and it means end of weekend. I have been counting down and i have  18 more days to end of my Industrial Attachment (without including weekends). Actually, i have been counting down since the start of my Industrial Attachment. How i wish everything will end as soon as possible.

 Today, i have been researching on the internet on ways to improve the internet speed and have actually found one that seems to be working ( for me). You can try this if you want, and see if its working for you.

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1) go Start > Run and type “gpedit.msc” - without the quotes

2) You will be brought to this Group Policy Page.

3) On the Left Navigation, go to Computer Configuration > Adminstative Templates > Network > QoS Packet Sceduler. On the Right site, you will see this. (refer the image below)

 

4) Double click on the Limit Reservation Bandwidth and set the settings as you seen below.

5) You are done!.

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Well, guess thats all for this post today. Have a nice day everyone.

Quote of the day : You’ll never achieve your dreams if they don’t become goals.

Another day…

First of all, i would like to congrats Mr Eugene Tay Kian Leng for being the Year 2008 National Youth Achievement Award Gold Holder. Hes the only one in School of Information Technology and School of Engineering in NYP that received this prestigious award this year. (Only 2 person get this award and he is one of the two) He has done us proud ! Will do an interview with him some other day when i am free

Secondly, i am disappointed with myself. Since last saturday, i have been lazing around. No progressing towards the $500 Challenge. I was really damn tired after work. But tomorrow is friday, means weekend is coming and i think i have alot of catching up to do. Well, “I WILL WORK HARD”

Since launched, this blog of mine has only managed to get 10 subscribers for my rss feeds. So for those of you who has not subsribed to my RSS feeds!! Do so now!! I guess i will also start to run some contests in my blog to make things interesting. Will be thinking about what type of contests to run in the next few weeks. So if you have any ideas, feel free to drop some comments.