Managed to move BlogMalaysia website to Malaysia’s local hosted server. Loading speed is much faster now for those who surf from Malaysia. Since it is BlogMalaysia, our main audiences are from Malaysia, so the move. 
That should also speed up my time to review and approve submitted blogs to BlogMalaysia.
I plan to move BlogMalaysia to my Malaysia server, which is powered by Direct Admin and has no AWSTATS software installed. So I decided to take a screenshot of BlogMalaysia statistics before I migrate the data over.
BlogMalaysia has grown to become the largest blog directory in Malaysia, in a year + time and over 3.6k blogs in our directory and growing by around 30-50 blogs daily.
We have around 23k unique visitors in Feb 2009, which is around 780 unique visitors daily. Thanks you bloggers!
Started on 12th January 2008, in a year+ time, I am glad to see that BlogMalaysia has grown to become the largest blog directory in Malaysia! First blog about BlogMalaysia can be read at:
http://shashinki.com/blog/?s=blogmalaysia
Yeah, that’s the good thing about blogging…you can trace back history of your life with just a simple search. I don’t have photographic memory so cannot remember every little or big things in my life. 
Some Statistics of BlogMalaysia:
Total Blogs : 3610
There are around 10 new blogs each day and growing fast. Thanks to bloggers who have volunteering put a linkback of BlogMalaysia logo on their blogs.
Eg.:
Codes:
<p><a href=”http://blogmalaysia.com”><img src=”http://blogmalaysia.com/images/reciprocal.gif” alt=”BlogMalaysia.com” border=”0″></a></p>
Thank you all for the support to BlogMalaysia!
BlogMalaysia has been growing…healthily! It has quite a number of new submitted blog daily, till some times I do not even have time to go approve all the submitted blogs… (sorry bloggers…please be patience…). Currently with over 2500 blogs and growing…it is definitely one of the largest and most popular blog directory in Malaysia nowadays!
I just checked the pagerank of BlogMalaysia, and to be surprise…it is now ranked at PR5!
http://oyoy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fblogmalaysia.com&#r
My last check it was PR4, which is around 3-4 months ago. Google sure like blogs…and I am glad that Google has increased the ranking of BlogMalaysia now. What is PR? That’s a different topic…you can wikipedia for it.
So, how is the statistics of BlogMalaysia? Below is what I get from AWSTATS:
Some people got confused with hits and unique visitor. Hits can be a lot, but unique visitor is what that counts (IMO).
With my busy scheduled, I have actually appointed two admins to assist me at BlogMalaysia…but sadly…both of them are now MIA and probably got scared by the mass volume of work (many blogs) that they have to review and approve daily. I can’t just appoint anybody to be the admin, as he/she will have access to the INSIDE of BlogMalaysia. Hence I will have to bare the work load myself now… 
Just reviewed over 100 blogs this morning…another 200 to go…yeah… … …
BlogMalaysia.com – Malaysia Bloggers Directory!
I am happy and proud to announce that BlogMalaysia has over 1500 registered blogs now!
In terms of registered bloggers, we have 1698 bloggers as of this second. I wonder why some registered but not submitting their blogs…or maybe their blogs were rejected due to not fulfilling the requirements (spams?)
BlogMalaysia was born in January 2008. I am glad that within a year, we have already achieved over 1000 registered blogs and growing exponantially! With many bloggers putting BlogMalaysia link logo as of the above, many gets to know about BlogMalaysia and submitting their blogs to the Malaysia Blog Directory!
BlogMalaysia is a free directory, and it shall remain free forever. The existence of BlogMalaysia is to gather Malaysia bloggers information under one roof, easier for friends and family to search for their blogger friends at the directory.
Ok…have to rest now…hope to see your blog soon if you haven’t registered yourself there…seeya!
Last month, I blogged about BlogMalaysia registering over 500 blogs and target to reach 800 blogs before 1st June 2008 at:
http://shashinki.com/blog/2008/05/01/blogmalaysia-over-500-blogs-now/
No, it has not been achieved but we still have 5 more days to go. There are currently 768 registered blogs at BlogMalaysia.com now (we have actually removed quite a number of blogs which we do not think qualified to be listed, eg. spams), 32 more blogs to go before hitting our 800 target.
I would like to thank bloggers who have submitted their Blogs to BlogMalaysia.com, especially those who have put a link back to BlogMalaysia to promote the site. What is a link back? See logo/link below:
Some bloggers have this logo/link in their blog. This is how they help to promote BlogMalaysia.com. You can see I have this at the lower right column in my blog as well.
With BlogMalaysia getting busier and busier nowadays, it is beyond my ability to go through each and every blogs before approval. Still, I do not want to approve blogs without checking every one of them (I still missed one or two from time to time). So, in order to serve more effectively, I have assigned A.P.P.L.E, a very responsible and knowledgeable blogger to be the administrator of BlogMalaysia.com for the blog directory approval. Yes, she is helping me with the approval of blogs, sharing the burden or should I say taking away much of the burden from my shoulder in BlogMalaysia.com.
Thank you A.P.P.L.E! [ http://www.xiaoyenzi.com ]
Yes, just before 1st May 2008, BlogMalaysia has achieved its target by having over 500 registered blogs! There are actually more, but I have chosen to delete some blogs which are just created for advertisement with “no content” but copies of articles from other online websites.
In the beginning of March 2008, we have slightly over 300 registered blogs. Within the month of April, we have managed to achieve 500 registered blogs. There are around 200 new blogs registered to BlogMalaysia within the month of April, which I think is a very encouraging figures. With many generous bloggers use reciprocal link of BlogMalaysia Link Logo at their blogs, growth is in a rapid rate!
Our new target for May2008 – Reaching over 750 800 (let’s set a higher target) registered blogs before 1st June 2008!
Besides blog statistics, I am proud to announce as well the Link Logo design contest winner, APPLE!
A.P.P.L.E
[ http://www.xiaoyenzi.com ]
Her design is great, which you can see below:
This new link logo has been activated few weeks ago, which means that those who put BlogMalaysia link logo at their blogs will have the new design appear automatically. Hope you like it.
Happy blogging! 
At BlogMalaysia.com, we have successfully added RSS Feed to every blog that submitted to BlogMalaysia.com directory! Of course, members will have to key in the URL of their Feed, else our system will not be able to resolve the RSS Feed URL address and will not be able to retrieve the latest posts from the member’s blog.
Here’s a screenshot of my blog at BlogMalaysia.com:
Click the picture above to see the actual page in action!
So you asked: Why is this got anything to do with me?
Yes, it does. BlogMalaysia.com as a free bloggers directory will promote your blogs and gain more visitors to your site at now charge! When a member or visitor views your blog details at BlogMalaysia.com, if they have the chance to read about your blog posts without having to go to your blog first, then the chances of them visiting and clicking the links of your blogs will be higher.
How about search engines?
Yes, with your blog posts being feeded to BlogMalaysia.com, it means more links to your blog and will definitely get search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN…etc.) to rank you higher! Again, this is FREE! You don’t have to pay a cent to promote and advertise your blog freely at BlogMalaysia.com!
What’s next?
BlogMalaysia RSSFeed is still at its infant stage. There are more new features to come…but of course…start joining us in the directory and don’t forget to check out our FORUM too!
Happy Blogging!
BlogMalaysia.com is a Malaysia bloggers directory, provide FREE LISTING to all bloggers in Malaysia!
By submitting your blog URL to BlogMalaysia, not only it will help increasing your blog’s PageRank, but directly will help drawing more visitors to your blog!
Why BlogMalaysia?
Free!
Featured Blogger
High PageRank (we have advertisement of BlogMalaysia in some high PR websites)
Detail Statistics (Statistics of your blog PageRank, backlinks, indexed page at Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alexa)
Free publicity/promotion to your website. Did I mentioned FREE?! Yes!
Recently, BlogMalaysia has an added new feature that is able to show and list down the latest 5 posts from your blog, feeded via RSS feed which you can include the RSS Feed URL when submitting your blog to BlogMalaysia.com! All feeds are automatically updated and you only need to submit your RSS Feed URL ONCE!
See example at:
Join us today and submit your blog for FREE at:
I read some blogs registered at BlogMalaysia today…and in one of them I read about the latest (is it latest?) computer game called Age of Empire III.
I still remember the AOE first version, very very nice graphic and very interesting strategy game. Yes, I used to play that, together with Command and Conquer. I am not expert in these game though (one of my room mate was really good in this strategy game, set the game speed to the fastest and he can still manage to conquer).
No…I don’t play computer game anymore nowadays. Not interested anymore. My last PC game was Final Fantasy X. Spent a few months finishing the game…quite tiring and addicted. Waste of time actually…
Instead of computer games, my not so new hobby is actually computer related as well. I kinda like to spend my time in my websites (ShaShinKi, BlogMalaysia, PentaxWorld, PhotoMalaysia…etc.). Today I spent US$20 bucks to purchase some codes and improve the design and features of BlogMalaysia. I have always wanted the Browse by PageRank feature, but can’t justify to spend the money for the codes before seeing BlogMalaysia is going to last or not. I am not a programmer myself, so I can’t write the codes myself. So I will have to get some codes and modify it to my existing BlogMalaysia design. Yeah…still have to spend hours in merging the codes to BlogMalaysia, but the final result is quite satisfying.
Hope more will join BlogMalaysia…we have over 100 blogs now…and we are growing. Be the early bloggers to join us!
I don’t play computer games…I play with my websites.
I just found out that Google has just updated their PageRank recently.
Some of the blogs in BlogMalaysia has jump from PR0 to PR3! Congrates! 
Here’s the PageRank changes of the blogs in BlogMalaysia.com:
(P/s: Negative PageRank means that the site has not been assigned a PR by Google yet.) Read More
Glad to see that BlogMalaysia.com has more than 100 blogs registered in the directory now!
Just a month+ old, BlogMalaysia.com is growing well…and many bloggers has show support by volunteering adding BlogMalaysia link logo in their blogs:
Besides directory, BlogMalaysia.com is having a forum for bloggers too now! We have a two very dedicated forum staffs at the moment, one is:
APPLE – a very dedicated blogger who is great in blog design as well as art design. Her blog updates frequently, with various type of informations and news. A good example for new bloggers to follow.
http://www.xiaoyenzi.com
Another one is:
Alvin – a buddy who I know personally, very knowledgeable person with good experience in forum management and serving.
http://alvinjani.mylovepress.com
Do take a look at their blogs, and of course don’t forget to register your blog for FREE at BlogMalaysia.com!
Happy blogging!
I checked my blog statistic today and notice something “weird“.
I have a dramatic increment of visitors since 11th Feb 2008. That’s more than doubled!
That was the day my blog becomes Featured Blogger at BlogMalaysia.com!
Yes, the impact seems huge…especially since BlogMalaysia.com is still a new site.
Every month, there will be newly selected Featured Blogger. How to qualify? Makes your blog unique and nice, with banner in your blog, then you will stand a chance to be featured!
Just did some update to BlogMalaysia.com.
There are around 0~3 new bloggers sign up to BlogMalaysia.com daily. Yeah, sometimes it is 0…
I noticed that some bloggers are using reciprocal link of BlogMalaysia.com at their website, which is good. However, the previous reciprocal link is just text of BlogMalaysia.com, which is hard to notice…not so presentable…so I did some modification and added the below codes today:
The above codes will show the reciprocal link and picture below:
So…what do you think? Better huh? 
I relaunched BlogMalaysia.com last week, after a database corruption and lost over hundred of entries in BlogMalaysia.com.
What is BlogMalaysia.com?
It is a website that list out all the URL address of bloggers in Malaysia. More like a yellowpages.
After the relaunched, I reconfigure the system to allow only registered members to post links. Why register? By registering an account at BlogMalaysia, member can later login to edit the Links if there is any changes to the descriptions or new URL of your blog. Without registration, this cannot be done and can’t be edited by the blog owner. In long run, this is a better way than having blog owners contacting me each time they want to change or edit their blog information.
It has been a week + since I relaunched the site…so far there are 13 members/links registered. Almost like one new member a day…hmm…not as fast as I would have hope for.
I have been promoting BlogMalaysia.com at PhotoMalaysia.com and ShaShinKi.com, these two websites have many visitors daily. I have thought of using paid advertising to promote the site…but it is a bit burden for me at the moment…so will let BlogMalaysia.com grows by its own for the time-being…
If you have a blog and are reading this…do head over to BlogMalaysia.com and register your blog there. It is Free and it promote your sites to more visitors and audience without having you to pay a cent.
This is the first time I am experiencing this. Yeah…my server hard disk failed on the morning of 21st Jan 2008 while I was doing some backuping work.
Yes, I have foreseen the hardisk to fail. cPanel software that I use for my server has sent me two warning on 18th Jan 2008 (Friday) and 20th Jan 2008 (Sunday).
I contacted my server provider a day before I received the warning, as my httpd service couldn’t be started. It was some conflicts between my SSL certificate and the httpd service. It seems that my SSL certificate has corrupted. Most probably is due to the hardisk problem already, but my provider checked and said they found no error. So I just leave it apart.
Of course, after receiving the cPanel warning, I contacted them again and the advice is to backup my files “IMMEDIATELY”. Yes, one shouldn’t delay any further when this warning comes up.
I am not experience enough to know how to backup my entire server effectively. The backup feature in WHM doesn’t seem to work to my understanding. So on Sunday night, I backup manually the database and home directory of two of my most important sites: ShaShinKi.com and PentaxWorld.com.
On Monday morning, I am on the way to backup more of the other sites that I have on the server…too bad I was not in time to grab them all.
I lost an important site of mine…CaptureSG.com. Though the site is very quiet and not growing as what I have hoped for, but there are some very dedicated members that still help out in the site. I must say I am sorry not being able to safeguard the data well…
On Monday morning, my database suddenly can’t be accessed. I restarted mySQL but failed. Then I tried restarting httpd, failed again. Now both database and http can’t be accessed. FTP still working fine, and I manage to copy some other backup of ECMalaysia and BlogMalaysia. However, their database are gone (for the better future I believe).
To be continue…
BlogMalaysia.com – Malaysia Bloggers Directory!
What’s the hottest thing on planet now?
Yeah…blogging…
A new phrase in the late of 20 century, so very popular now in the 21st century.
What is blog? It is more like a diary, a personal webspace to post one’s thought and sharing. Blog becomes so popular with the boom of internet and many free blog space given out by big companies (eg. Google).
For those who have their own domain, the most popular free blog management software out there is probably WordPress. Yes, free but so feature rich! Yes, I am using WordPress for my blog as well. It manages my blog nicely, and the new version has some simple but practical WYSIWYG features for me to type my blog entry sufficiently.
Now…back to the title of this post – BlogMalaysia.com!
I got this domain from Brian (founder of PhotoMalaysia.com) last year, after Brian decided to discontinue free blog offering and let the domain expired. The domain was registered by Brian in July 2004, and was expired on July 2007. Brian has to pay a little extra money to renew the expired domain after it expired (US$10 or US$15 penalty?) and renew with one year fee (US$8.99) to get back the domain, and later transfer it to me. For me to receive the domain at my registra, I have to add another year of subscription. Of course I paid all the suspenses. For me it is still very cheap to get a nice domain name. Quite impossible to register such domain name again nowadays, as most are already grabbed by others.
So, what am I going to do with the domain? My personal blog? Nah…I don’t want to use that domain name as my personal blog. I actually plan to make a Malaysia Blog Database or Directory, with as many Malaysians blog URL as possible. I found a nice software for the project, and found a nice template design for it…but not as perfect as I hoped. Modification and study structure of the software are a must, if you want your site to be unique and looks good, you need to pour in your effort.
I did a basic design for it few months ago…and try to gather as many bloggers info as possible to key into the database. But one thing I knew, I can’t survive like this. I don’t want to key in the info myself, I want bloggers to come and register their URL themselves at BlogMalaysia.com!
How? Honestly I have no idea. It is hard to promote a new site…very hard actually. Online forums will definitely not allow me to promote BlogMalaysia.com for free, and I do not have a budget for advertisement (maybe I shall find some budget for advertisement…).
Today, since I was quite free and have the mood (most importantly), I revisited BlogMalaysia.com and did some changes to the template design. Below are some of the improvements that I have done in the last couple of hours (yeah, learn something new too):
” mark to each line in the right sidebar. This makes the side bar easier to view and click.I shall think of what to add next…if you have any suggestion, feel free to comment.