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JayceOoi.com on UptimeRobot
Monitor Is Down: JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com)
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The monitor JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com) is currently down.
Alert Details: No Response From The Website (The server that the website is hosted on can be down)
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I received this email when JayceOoi.com was down yesterday 7:23pm. And received another email below at 7:50pm.
Monitor Is Up: JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com)
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The monitor JayceOoi.com (http://www.jayceooi.com) is back up.
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I want to get myself a Panasonic HDC-TM700K High Definition Camcorder. I can get it from B&H Photo Video Pro Audio which import from US. Or get it locally in Malaysia. The US version is 1920 x 1080p x 60fps while Malaysia version is 1920 x 1080p x 50fps. I prefer 60fps version. But Panasonic HDC-TM700K only provides US warranty and no international warranty like Canon. However, the US price is attractive at USD 863.80 (RM RM2779.28) including shipping fee which Malaysia is priced at RM3500. Around RM 700 different. And does it dutiable when imported back to Malaysia? I searched around Royal Malaysian Customs Department website and found these below…
Non-dutiable goods include:
- Fountain Pen.
- Cigarette Lighters (except of plastic).
- Printed books, newspapers, magazines and journals.
- Perfumes.
- Cosmetics (except face powder) and skin-care products like lipsticks, eye shadows, moisturizing cream, skin tonics.
- Manicure products like nail polisher and nail varnish.
- Carpets of jute.
- Portable radio equipped with recorder and sound reproducers (weighing not more than 10 kg., with handles / straps and AC/DC powered).
- Pocket watches, wrist watches and table / wall clocks.
- Photo cameras, camera flashbulbs, camera flashbulb equipments and film rolls.
- Cinematographic cameras, projectors, sound recorders and sound reproducers, for films of less than 16 mm width including cameras for double 8 mm film.
- Video cameras / television cameras
- Pocket calculators.
- Shillings / Gold bar.
- Computer.
- Fishing equipments (e.g. Fishing rods, Fish hooks etc.)
- Golf clubs (complete).
- Racquets (Tennis, Badminton and the like)
- All sorts of balls except golf balls.
- All musical instruments (excluding upright piano)
- Leather shoes
- Leather bags including wallets and leather hand bags
- Video tapes (empty or recorded)
Yeah… Video camera is one of the non-dutiable goods. Now back to the question ~ should I get US version without international warranty?
How to get traffic to my website for free? This is a question that being asked by many of us including me. I have been blogging for almost 3 years. What have I done to increase my blog traffic? Well in short, I took the slow and steady move. Being as an application developer in MNC, I blog for part time only. Therefore, I do not have time that most professional bloggers have. However, it does not stop me from blogging professionally.
JayceOoi.com traffic sources on November 2009
JayceOoi.com is the first blog (I called it website for last 2 years as I did not want to admit that it is a blog) that I have. And then PrettyGirl2u.com and spBlogger.com. All of them have traffic from search engines for free. I am not going to discuss on every single step here, just high level as most of us know to do so already.
Things that I do to get traffic to my website for free…
- Make my website a search engine optimized (SEO) website.
- Comment at others’ blog.
- Active at famous forums.
- Don’t stop learning new stuff
Search engines love SEO websites. You will get lot of traffic there. All you need to do ~ get lot of incoming links as you can. Personally, I don’t blog purposely for search engine. There are some who do so in order to make money online. And it is proven that it work. I would like to have more direct traffic. Why? This mean that your blog is informative and people are willing to visit again. And indirectly, it will bring more incoming links too. Finally, I always keep this in mind.
Write good content, do proper marketing == money money traffic traffic come. 
Feel your website loading speed is slow? Don’t feel it. Gets a free tool from Pingdom to check your website loading time. It is as easy as ABC. Just key in your website address and click ‘Test now’. You will get result like below…
There is a detail view of the result which includes images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes loading time. I also discovered some broken links with this method. It is a nice free tool indeed. Hmm… Time to upgrade my theme again…
How much loading time is your website?
Do you still need to manage your web hosting? Well, I don’t. After dump the poor support team ~ SmartTeam hosting, I switched to HostMonster. During SmartTeam hosting, I need to call their support team to tell them that my website database was down. And they did not even know. Come on, what is managed web hosting?
Using HostMonster… I can spend my time focus on writing better articles rather than spending time to call up support team. And I just noticed that my blogs’ bandwidth usage passed 100GB per month. Wow… That is lot of traffic there.
September 2009 bandwidth usage
3 of my main blogs (JayceOoi.com, spBlogger.com and PrettyGirl2u.com) hosted in 1 HostMonster account. Why I prefer HostMonster managed web hosting?
- Web Hosting Space – Unlimited
- Host UNLIMITED DOMAINS
- Gigs of Site Transfer – Unlimited
These are the top 3 priority that I need. And it is only USD 5.95 per month ~ discount now. Isn’t that great? By the way, don’t bother to find free web hosting. I don’t think that free lunch will give such features.
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