In 2005, Exabytes Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia web hosting company posted a revenue of RM1.7 millions and still continues to grow. The founder of Exabytes is only a 26 year old guy by the name of Chan Kee Siak (I only realized this after 3 years being an Exabytes customer). Instead of following typical foot steps of normal college graduates finding jobs, he instead chose to be an entrepreneur. As the saying goes, ‘if you can’t get a job, create one!’ (In the case of Chan, he created not one but many).

His venture started some way back in 2001 when he was doing some part time and freelancing job while still a college student. He realized while helping a client setting up a website and finding web host for them, the number of affordable and reliable web hosting providers in Malaysia are very much limited.

From there he made a further analysis on some hosting providers overseas, and finally signed up as a reseller with one of them, and propelled the company we know as Exabytes until what it is today. As of today, Exabytes is serving over 6000 clients including local and overseas clients. Their main office is located in Bayan Baru, Penang, catering for over 20 employees that cover the technical area, support, administration and so on.

Off course, it wasn’t all roses before the company achieve its success today. There are many challenges faced including competitions from existing and new web hosting companies, in which they responded by giving more added-value services to their client. Exabytes are also active giving out promotional goodies, lucky draw contests to attract loyalty and add more clients.

Visit Exabytes Malaysia website.

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