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Chan Kee Siak (From Malaysia), born to a hawker family, he is a self-taught entrepreneur. He started out as a child helper at his parents’ hawker store and later found Exabytes (Web Hosting company) at a tender age of 19 after dropping out of college to focus 100% on his website business.

So how did Chan came up with the name Exabytes for his business? Well, back then there this one well known company that goes by the name of 'Gigabytes'. But then Chan visualises his future business to be bigger, hence naming it Exabytes instead!

Growing the business to where it is today is not bed of roses indeed. But Chan's vision and mission never faltered. I must credit this spirit due the hard life he has when he was growing up. When he first started the business, like any other typical Asian parents, his father were not particularly supportive as he would prefer seeing his son wear office attire and go work for others, just like any other normal people.

But Chan is determined and hungry. And he's glad that he worked so hard to prove those who doubt his dream earlier that he too can be successful despite having a hard life.

Under his master command, Exabytes has since grew and specialized in providing web hosting services since year 2001. It is ranked at number 1 in Malaysia since 2005 and has served over 60,000+ customers ranging from individuals, students, small & medium businesses, to Government and Public Listed Companies in 121 countries. It also manages over 1000+ servers with 100,000+ websites and 1,000,000+ email accounts.

Exabytes product offering includes the latest Cloud Hosting, Domain Name Registration / Renewal, Business Web & Email Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Easy.My hosted E-Commerce Solution (allows customers to instantly start their online shop and sell on Facebook and their websites), CDN (Content Delivery Network), EBuzzzz Email

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