Dear readers,

Please  welcome our MEGA MERDEKA promotion for this month. In collaboration with our nation’s national month, Shinjiru is giving all Malaysian the UNRESISTABLE. . . . MERDEKA PROMOTION. For this nation wide celebration period, we are giving you the best deal of the year. This time round, we brought even better deals, special offers, and varieties of free gifts to give away JUST FOR YOU. This special Merdeka Promotion is valid from 2 Aug 2010 to 30 Aug 2010. Hurry up and order now.

Promotion For Dedicated Server

* Free Western Digital External Harddisk - 1 TB or
* Blackberry Curve 8520

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 Promotion For Virtual Private Server 

* Double of everything VPS resources

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Promotion For Linux Shared Hosting 

* 30% discount
* Free Kaspersky Anti-Virus

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Promotion For Windows Shared Hosting 

* 30% discount
* Free Kaspersky Anti-Virus

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Promotion For Microsoft Exchange Hosting

* Buy 2 Mailboxes, FREE 1 Mailbox

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Promotion For Server Co-Location

* Free Western Digital External Harddisk -1 TB

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Promotion For Windows SharePoint Hosting

* Free Western Digital External Harddisk -1 TB

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Promotion For .MY Domain

HAPPY MERDEKA DAY, Everyone… Thank you for your support.

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The word RAID stands for Redundant Array Independent Disks. The idea of RAID technology was to use an array of hard disks for either better performance or better security against disk failure. Raid can use 2 or more disks at once to increase data reading and writing speed, It can use 2 or more disks to store the same data so disk failure will not mean that you lose your data, or RAID can be a mixture of both. A RAID Array of disks will appear to an operating system as a single disk as extra storage space is not provided by RAID.

RAID Levels

There are different RAID levels, each supporting specific situations. RAID levels are not standardized by an industry group. This explains why companies are sometimes creative and come up with their own unique implementations. But we will only discuss the most widely used RAID in the industry.

RAID Level O

RAID 0 diagram

In RAID Level 0, the RAID host adapter sends one part of data to one hard disk and another part of the data to another hard disk. However not only is there no data protection, it is actually less reliable than a single disk, as all the data is lost if a single disk in the array stripe fails. Minimum hard disk needed to implement RAID 0 is 1.

RAID Level 1

RAID 1 Diagram

RAID Level 1 is totally different compare to RAID Level 0. When your PC sends data to be written to the hard disk, the RAID adapter writes an identical image to each of two drives (data mirroring). Two copies of the data are held on two physical disks, and the data is always identical. RAID1 has a performance advantage, as reads can come from either disk, and is simple to implement. However, it is expensive, as twice as many disks are needed to store the data. Minimum hard disk to implement RAID 1 is 2.

RAID Level 5

RAID Level 5 Diagram

RAID Level 5 is the ultimate one. It includes both error correction and performance in the setup, so it is good for corporate or mission critical use. Good general performance, and quite cheap to implement. Used extensively for general data. Minimum hard disk to implement RAID 5 is 3.

RAID Level 10

RAID 10 Diagram

RAID 10 is a combination of RAID1 mirroring and data striping. This means it has very good performance, and high reliability, so it is most ideal for mission critical database applications. All that redundancy means that it is expensive. Minimum hard disk to implement RAID 10 is 4 hard disks.

Advantages of Using RAID drive

Increases the performance and reliability
The RAID drive is a credible example that could be used in a server. The RAID increases the parity check and thus it regularly checks for any possibility of a system crash. Disk stripping is also a hot topic when we discuss about the RAID drives. The performance is much highlighting and increases a lot when the disk stripping is done. How the performance increases a lot by the disk stripping? This is actually done by the interleaving of the bytes or the group of bytes. The interleaving of this sort is done across the multiple drives. By this procedure only one disk is reading or writing the data. The reading and writing of the data are done in a simultaneous process.

Mirroring the complete duplication of the data
Mirroring the duplication of the data on two drives. In other words mirroring is the 100%  redundancy. Only copying to the replacement is necessary.

The concept of parity comes after the concept and application of the mirroring.
The parity involves that the data from the crashed system be matched up with the data that is stored in the other disk. The parity check is the term allotted for the work it carries out. The procedure involved is done as the parity is used to calculate the data in the two drives and store the results in the third drive. In case there are more than two drives the parity check is done on all of them and the results are stored on a completely altogether different drive. The preferable device may be the RAID 3 or the RAID 5. And the failed drive is replaced.

At Shinjiru we provide the option to setup RAID for our dedicated server customers. You can view the fees here. Check it out~

Until next time readers~

-Shinjiru Web Hosting-

Hi Readers! Last April Shinjiru team went to the Internet Show 2010 at Suntec Singapore. The show consists of latest seminar and series that brings together big, medium and small business. This time they are show casing some interesting topics like digital advertising & marketing, web 2.0 & social networking,e-commerce & payments, content management & streaming and domain names, hosting & infrastructure.

It is a 2 days event to find new ways of doing internet business.

Shinjiru team at Suntec

Since the talk was divided to 5 sessions simultaneously, we had to divide our team to each session so we won’t miss it. Each session was a full house! Some session we even had to stand for a full 20-30 minutes. Luckily it didn’t take so long if not I won’t be feeling my legs anymore.

Here are some of images of the booth in the internet show:

PayPal booth

Purple Click booth

one of the organizer's SingTel

Zopim booth

Internet Kiosk in the middle of the show

Chatting with other visitors

Throughout the seminar there was a networking bar, free internet kiosk, snack cafes and big lounge for the visitors to rest and all. This is the first time I went to an exhibition like this~

We enjoyed few drinks and snacks at the networking bar

We cruising throughout the show

In the end it was a tiring day but informative for us. Not to mention we can visit Singapore! Last time I went to Singapore was about 8 years ago! Too bad we had to end the trip so soon. No worries I’ll be back. Until next post readers~

-Shinjiru Web Hosting-

Let us ask you one question “How confident are you on your website or server security?”. Only two choices

A. Could be hacked.

B. Could not be hacked !

Everyday the ratio of 5:1,000 websites are being prone to attack in a day. This means for every 1,000 websites out there, 5 can be hacked ! Either by SQL injection, HTTP server-side attack, PHP remote attack and the lists goes on.

Shinjiru views Internet Security as one of the top priority. In fact in major internet conference worldwide, the topic of Internet Security is getting more exposure and is one of the top topics nowadays. Now we are glad to introduce to you our latest service: Security Health Check (SHC). It is based on the same concept of Human Health Check whereby we go for a medical checkup every year to ensure we are in good health. Now if us humans do this for a peace of mind, we should do the same to for our website or servers. Nobody wants to wake up one day knowing that his/her server is being hacked and data got stolen!

SHC will screen your server in multiple level from network, operating system right down to critical business applications. We use the latest hacking techniques to ensure that your server is 99.999% safe.

Protect your website with Security Health Check

Benefits using the Security Health Check:

• Discover and address your firm’s vulnerabilities before an undesired agent does it for you.
• Understand your level of exposure and business impact of a security breach.
• Reduce the impact (cost, time, reputation) and frequency of security attacks against your organization.
• Meet compliance and or regulatory requirements that call for periodic security assessments.
• Ensure information assurance within your firm and protect your information assets from accidental or directed misuse.
• Optimize and prioritize your resources spent to remediate system and software vulnerabilities.
• Gain peace of mind about your security safeguards, controls and policies.

Deploying Shinjiru’s Security Health Check Services, you will be able to gain peace in mind knowing that your server and network are fully protected according to International Security Standard. Start now by subscribing to our Basic Vulnerability Report. This report is the starting point on saving you potential millions lost due to security damages. Now this is what we called Wise Investment!

You can read our case studies here. Keep safe readers.

-Shinjiru Web Hosting-Malaysia

Yeah !! Labor/Labour Day is here again. As we know Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated by workers from all over the world. That including me This year’s labor day is a bit special because it is also the wedding eve of our CTO. Jeng…jeng…jeng…Bachelor’s and Hen’s nite. Congratulations to Shaun & Fion. May you two have a wonderful life together and let’s party hard tonight.

Happy Labor Day 2010!

Here are some activities for you to enjoy your Labor Day holiday:

- Go to Work

Just kiddin’. Lol. But on the bright side, if you work today you get double pay. Like our 24/7 Shinjiru Web Hosting Support Team. So guys please buy me lunch next week, ya.

- Stay Home

Get chilled at home. Relax and enjoy whatever you are lazing for.  Give yourself a good rest for the weekend. For the single male, watch your TV, Astro, DVD or PS3 or Wii or XBox or whatever Bbox..I dont know much about this but I know you guys are crazy about these. After all this tense activity, take a nap. Afternoon nap is a god given gift. If you can, just do it. For the single female, jeng..jeng..jeng, it is time to make ourselves beautiful. Pamper ourselves with home spa ! Facial mask, bath tub soaks, aromatheraphy…oohlala. For the couple, give your other partners a nice hug and kiss. Muacks-muacks! I am sure he or she will be so so surprised and happy. Aint it wonderful to just rest and relax at home?

-  Shopping

As a smart female being, shopping is like an ecstasy to my life. 1^st May happens to fit nicely to my shopping activity. Imagine paycheck banked-in + public holiday = extensive shopping activity. Shopping is a good activity for girls. Imagine, walking through the mall back and forth. How much calories we lose for a good cause!  Imagine all the goodies we bought at the end of the exercise. Those are our rewards! So guys, if you want slim and sexy girlfriends, give us money to shop! Let us shop, shop and  shop…..

- Let Your Computer or Blackberry or Smart Phones Rest Be King for a Day

Ya..I know it is hard. Very hard for some of us. We cant just look away! Let your computer and mobile devices rest for 1 day. Give them a big break. Hey…that doesnt mean you don’t answer any phone calls, ok. Don’t blame it on me if your boyfriend/girlfriend cant find you. Dont say “Wani teaches me one…”.

-  Holiday Trip

Go for a trip. Trip. Trip. Seeing a different view with your friends or love one can make you recharge and get yourself ready for another working week. Take a trip to the park. Get back to nature. See how the birds and bees do it. Enjoy the nature, the river, lake and the waterfall. I love water but I dont chase waterfall, ok. Remind me of TLC’s song….

Don’t go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
I know that ypu’re gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you’re moving too fast

Aint the lyrics and beat nice? Old school rap. Ha…nice. I cant help it anymore. I need to go and bee bop to this song. After all, it is Labor Day after all, so why am I writing such a long rant? It is your life anyway..Just do anything to be happy !

Happy Labor Day you all.

- Shinjiru Web Hosting -

Have you ever face like this situation?  You’ve registered your domain name, paid for hosting with a hosting provider and uploaded your website to the web server. If this is all done, why can’t you see the results of your hard work right away? You ask the hosting provider’s support department and they answered “Please wait for the DNS to propagate”.You have no choice but to wait the DNS to propagate. And then it hits you,what is a DNS Propagation?

To understanding DNS propagation, you must first understand a little about how DNS works. When you set up your website with your hosting provider, they create a Master DNS record in their Domain Name Servers. Your domain registrar will points to your web host’s DNS server as being the master authority of your domain.

DNS propagation need 24 hours to propagate

When any outside source wants to know how to find your website, they first go to the registrar’s database to find out who the DNS authority is for your website. Then they visit your hosting provider’s DNS servers to find out what the IP Address is for your domain name and from there your audience can now view your website.

In order to speed up the rate at which their customers can view the internet, each Internet Server Provider caches their DNS records. This means that they make their own copy of the master records, and read from them locally instead of looking them up on the Internet each time someone wants view a website. This actually speeds up web surfing quite a bit, by (1) speeding up the return time it takes for a web browser to request a domain lookup and get an answer, and (2) actually reducing the amount of traffic on the web therefore giving it the ability to work faster.

The downside to this caching scenario and what makes it take so long for your website to be visible to everyone, is that each company or ISP that caches DNS records only updates them every few days. This is not any kind of standard, and they can set this time anywhere from a few hours to several days. The slow updating of the servers cache is called propagation, since your websites DNS information is now being propagated across all DNS servers on the web. When this is finally complete, everyone can now visit your new website. Being that the cache time is different for all servers, as mentioned above, it can take anywhere from 36 to 72 hours for DNS changes to be totally in effect.

Temporarily, you can access the website or webmail using IP before you can use your domain. Example :

- For website, http:///~username [ E.g: http://124.217.242.80/~test ]
- For webmail, http:///mewebmail or http:///webmail [ E.g: http://124.217.242.180/mewebmail or http://124.217.242.80/webmail ]

Each web hosting provider has different IP URL link to view website or webmail. Thus you need to check with the web hosting provider.

Now how we have immediate DNS propagation? What is the trick? I am sure you dont want to wait 24 hrs to 72 hours for your website to be transferred to your new server. So how do we minimise DNS propagation time?  We do this by adjusting the DNS TTL (Time to Live). Before you do any migration, set your TTL to the lowest DNS server time to live (TTL). By default it is 86400 seconds (1 day). This means visitors to your website will be accessible to both old and new servers in that 24 hours. Some will go to old servers and some will go to new servers. A flip flop situation. Imagine if it is set to 3 days then you will go berserk! Can you imagine some of your emails going to old server and some to new servers? To avoid this, set the TTL to minimum of 60 seconds before you change your DNS. Set the TTL to minimum of 60 seconds, wait for 24-72 hours. By setting TTL as 60 seconds, we are telling all the servers worldwide to check your server DNS every 60 seconds for any changes. So after 24 hours all the servers worldwide would known that they need to check every 60 seconds. This is the right time you should change your website’s DNS to the new server DNS.Voila, within 60 seconds everything is migrated to the new server and all visitors will only go to the new server.

Hope this post will give you a brief understanding for DNS Propagation and the importance of TTL for seamless website migration. Until next time readers.

-Shinjiru Web Hosting-

There was a lot of things happen in March. Shinjiru successfully followed the Malaysian Earth Hour movement, our Facebook fanbase reach 900 fans and another birthday celebration baby was celebrated by us.

This time its designer, Grey and Chief Technical Officer, Shaun turn to blow out the candles. The theme cake for this month is White Chocolate Macadamia Nut from Secret Recipe. Simply delicious. Below are the pictures taken during the celebration.

Candle blowing session

Grey, March baby was all smile as he cuts the cake

Everyone was singing and congratulate our March baby

Fion cuts the cake on behalf of Shaun

Congratulation guys~ Please be advised that Shaun was not in the picture. Hope you have a wonderful year ahead and may your wish came true. Until next time readers.

-Shinjiru Web Hosting-

Hi Readers,

Good news to all our Facebook Fans! We have just launched the “Fans Get Friends” promotion. Suggest to 10 friends to become Shinjiru Web Hosting fan and you will receive a mystery gifts from us. It’s time for you to be rewarded by us.

Shinjiru Fans Get Friends step by step:

1)   Firstly, please send a message to your friends saying “I will suggest you to become Shinjiru Web Hosting fan. By  joining as their fan club, you will help me to get a mystery gift”. This will work as opener for your friends to help you.

2)   Go to Shinjiru Fanpage and click at Suggest to Friends link.

Click at the Suggest to Friends link

3)  It will displayed the image below:

4)      Print screen the “Suggest Shinjiru Web Hosting to friends” feature and email to us at cs@shinjiru.com.my together with your particular details (Name, Address, Tel No., How Do Get To Know Shinjiru).

5)      Our Facebook crew will analyze your friends and contact you accordingly.

For more information, kindly click at the graphic above and view under Promotions! tab in Facebook. It is time to  be rewarded by us~ Happy Facebooking!

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Shinjiru has recently launched our latest web hosting services : Virtual Desktops (VD) in our website. Virtual Desktops are desktops located in our servers that are connected to internet 24 hours a day. Today we will show you what a Virtual Trader Desktop (VTD) can do.

All Virtual Trader Desktops can only be connected with our Virtual Private Network (VPN). VPN is a private and secure communication way traveling across the public internet. Through the power of encryption, authentication plus access control, all of your data are fully secured and protected.

VTD is the ultimate tool for traders to make the best out of online trading. VTDs are configured specifically for trading and are bundled with various top trading software like MetaTraders, VT Trader and TeleChart. With our VTD, you will not have any headache of slow network, no electricity, computer got stolen etc. causing you to lose trading opportunities that happened within fraction of seconds. Our VTD’s reliability and secure connection will open up new frontier for your trading needs.

Our VTD is 100% tested to be compatible with major trading applications and our VTD works 24 hours, 7 days a week non-stop. Feel easy and peaceful doing your daily online shares trading, Forex trading, CFD, Futures or Bullions. Remember, smart traders always have the best tool to trade successfully.

With VTD, trading can be done as fast and reliable!

What Is The Difference Between Normal Desktop And VTD?

You will be amazed with our Virtual Trader Desktop which provides  everything you ever need to make your online trading fast, smooth and efficient leading to your trading success. All VTD are protected by our highly secure network firewalls and powerful anti ddos network monitoring system monitored 24/7.

Believe it traders, this opportunity is highly recommended! For complete view on our VTD plan, click here. Need an expert advise or have more enquiry about our VTD plans?  Send to us your enquiry at sales@shinjiru.com.my or chat with our sales department in live chat.

Stay tune for next week’s Virtual Desktop article. Take care and we wish you Happy Trading !

Shinjiru Web Hosting

Once again Shinjiru renew its commitment to Earth Hour. Attached is the letter from our CEO and we at Shinjiru hope can get everyone to participate in this effort. Shinjiru aims to fulfill our corporate responsibility by reducing carbon footprints. Together we reduce electrical usage by moving towards server virtualization technology !

Let’s help our Mother Earth and make it a better place for our future generation! Get ready your candles for this coming Saturday. Happy Earth Hour !

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- Reducing Carbon Footprints is Our Responsibility ! -