My Web Hosting Account Got Doubled

Yesterday I got an e-mail from the sales department of my web hosting which I've recently purchased to host this blog. The e-mail announcement starts like this:

Dear Valued Customer,
We have increased the capacity of our Premium Hosting accounts by over two times! And we are giving you a unique opportunity to get a Premium Hosting account for FREE!

I was like "What's going on here?". I haven't set up an e-mail account yet. So, I logged into my web host Cpanel and saw this:

As you can see, my disk space is now 5GB. That is 4GB more than what I purchased. Let's make some comparison:

Now, what the hell am I going to do with that amount of storage? Plus, they add more 150GB of traffic monthly bandwidth. This is too much if you ask me. All I wanted was a reliable web host that could host a couple of my other domains and a couple of MySQL databases. Most cheap webhost that I was browse shopping would only give me 1 MySQL database and I don't like that.

Since the free .com domain is part of the package. My ashrufzz.aisyshop.com domain is not registered with my details:

Oh well, I can always transfer it whenever I want. I'm thinking of purchasing a local web hosting plan, well that would be next year I guess. For now, at USD2.99 or RM10.50 per month this web hosting package is providing me more than enough. So now, it's time to utilize it to the max baby!

The Entrepreneur Invite

After Valentines Day, I got a mail from the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Cooperation Development (MeCD) dated on the 14th February 2007 for an invitation to come for a briefing. The briefing would be on an Entrepreneurial program associated with Takaful Nasional.

The insurance industry is very lucrative. If you are very meticulous about legal mumbo-jumbo or if you are able to explain and present insurance products well enough to a client, then this would be a great career opportunity for you. Imagine for one client policy alone, you can get at least RM70 commision, that is even better than doing telemarketing for a hotel membership product for which I failed at.As always in any business, it's a numbers game. The more client you get, the more commission you make. The better you are at getting more and more clients, the more chances you can get to open up your own insurance agency.

Oh well, where were we? Oh yes, the invitation letter. I get so carried away when writing about business stuff.I don't know how they get my address, maybe they got it from the job searching websites that I've registered while searching for a job online a couple of months ago. It says that I am selected to undergo an intensive training for 6 months. The closing date was 3rd of March so I think I was too late. Let see what else they offer, oh they will pay me an allowance of RM500 per month for six months but accommodation is not included.

They have a limit of 200 early candidates. From what I heard, the organizer of the program gets more pay (which was cut from the RM500 allowance the Ministry given) if they can get more jobless people to sign up.Wait a minute, I've already gotten a new job. Why would I join the insurance business? Well, I was introduced to the insurance business before. Someone even wanted to sponsor me for all the trainings, exam fees and all that but I refused. I guess my future is to go online most of the time, configuring web-hosting, domains, PHP, Wordpress, CSS, XHTML and soon AJAX. I guess I have more fun doing that. Still, what is more fun than working on a dual monitor in a cozy apartment turned office with a gym and a swimming pool? :-)

Ashrufzz Reality Adventure Just Got Upgraded

I would like to welcome all my readers to my new blog. I have been blogging since 2004 and it has been an incredible journey for me. I can say that blogging has really changed my life a lot.

At the moment, being at a new work place in a new company and doing a new job tasks requires me to further organize myself and getting used to. I do enjoy the stuff I'm doing right now because I think this is what I was meant to do. I'll describe to you more about it as I write more blog posts.

I'm doing some major blog modification for this blog and hopefully it will be done by this weekend. I'll try and keep on posting new blog posts and I'm excited to be on a new and improved blog platform.

Public Announcement

Celebrating my new career as an open source web/blog administrator, I am officially ending my blogging activity on Blogger dot com. I now have a new place to blog, play around with customizations, modifications, plug-ins and all the latest web 2.0 toys at:I don't do graphic design very well but I can modify them anyhow. Still, I'm working on my design and hopefully there are people out there who would appreciate my masterpiece. If you are wondering why I don't just migrate or copy all my previous posts, read this.

Farewell to my old blogger blog. Adios amigos, you have been so kind to me!

To my new blog http://www.ashrufzz.ml

Why You Should Not Migrate Your Blogger Blog Posts To Wordpress

Last week, after I got enough funds on my PayPal account from my sponsored post activities, I went on an online shopping spree. I paid USD35.99 for a web hosting service which gave me my own Ashrufzz.com domain. Click here if you are interested for the full features. So if you are broke and you desperately like to have your own domain name and a shared web-hosting service and willing to do what I do, let me introduce you to Blogvertise.

Nowadays, there are a few paid blogging services and all you need to do to fill up your PayPal account is to register a free blog. Write blog posts based on what the provider has instructed, wait for a month and you will receive the payment through your PayPal. Of course in order for you to receive the money, you need to add a credit or debit card (I'll write a blog post on this) on your PayPal account. If you don't have any, then borrow for someone and pay them or ask your parents.

If you don't want to buy any web hosting or maybe you don't have any idea on what domain you should be buying, then get a free PHP web hosting. One of my successful Wordpress installation that is now being used by a company (A friend of mine who works with the company bribed me with a Pizza Hut free meal voucher just get it set up remotely). Occasionally, the web host is unstable but that is what you get when it is free, right?

I like Wordpress very much but I'm not going to give up on my Blogger Blog yet. So, what do I do? After reading all these blog posts:

• Maintain permalinks moving from Blogger to WordPress
• Migrating from Blogger to Wordpress
• Moving from Blogger to WordPress: Best Practices
  
• Migrating all post to wordpress (I really like what she did)
• WordPress vs Blogger - the verdict

I have decided to let my Blogger Blog to be remained and I'll be starting to blog on my brand new Ashrufzz (It will be re-launch as Ash-Ruf-Double Zee dot com) powered by the Wordpress 2.1.1.

Why did I decided not to migrate all my blogger blog posts to wordpress? Well, here a few reason why:

1. I like the fact that I can still see my past creation.
   
2. I believe Blogger would be around for a long time and that would assure me that this blog will be online for the readers to read without me paying for anything.
   
3. I don't want to mess around with the inbound link that is pointing to this blog and also some permalink that is directed within this blog.
4. I don't really mind loosing the PageRank as good, unique and quality blog posts has far more value than a green bar indicator.
   

As far as I appreciate blogger for doing a good job hosting my blog, I don't want to make duplicate copies like what Shannon did. I will however make sure that the product shall remain as it is.

I'll begin the development of my brand Wordpress blog over the weekend. I'm excited to be announcing it soon!