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Welcome to my page.

Websites under Fauzan Afandi’s management:

  1. LANDASAN Logo

    LANDASAN Logo

    LANDASAN  |  landasan.info – launched on 05 May 2010, LANDASAN contains information about transport sector in Malaysia. Information about transport in the United States are also available. Currently receiving about 1100 visits per day from both English and Malay language sites.

  2. Bayville Kitchen Logo

    Bayville Kitchen Logo

    Bayville Kitchen  |  bayvillekitchen.com – When he does not surf the internet and have good conversation with his friends, Fauzan Afandi cooks and eats. Bayville Kitchen is a place for him to share his love towards food as well as culinary and nutritional tips. It was launched on March 1st 2013.

  3. UNITY Logo

    UNITY Logo

    UNITY  |  unity.my – formerly known as mindamerdeka (mindamerdeka.com), UNITY  is established to address bigger market group, which also includes Malaysian diaspora overseas. The main objective of the website is to unite us Malaysians and contribute towards nation building. UNITY (under the name Minda Merdeka) was launched on May 5th 2010.

  4. DX.my Logo

    DX.my Logo

    DX.my  |  dx.my -  is intended to be a place for me to share not-so-serious stuff with everyone. The contents will come in wide scope, from music lyrics to product reviews. The contents will be based on the following principles: Discover, eXplore, eXperience, eXtreme, eXtraordinary. Apart from that, DX.my also serves as the one-stop portal for DX Media (Malaysia). It was launched on October 5th 2012.

  5. tempeclub  |  tempeclub.com - technology-oriented blog. Will be launched on May 5th 2013.
  6. fauzanafandi  |  fauzanafandi.com - fauzanafandi’s creative channel. Powered by Google’s Blogger service. Launched on July 1st 2012.

 

Connect with me via:

  1. Facebook: facebook.com/fauzandotmy
  2. Twitter: twitter.com/fauzandotmy
  3. PlayStation Network: fauzandotmy
  4. E-Mail: fauzan[dot]my[at]outlook[dot]com

Stagnant growth of advertisement revenue

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I have not been updating my websites regularly. As a result, my advertisement revenue for three consecutive months have reached a plateau.

From these occurrences, I have learned that I need to update my website regularly. This is because whenever I have new content on my website (or update existing content), I will see a slight bump in visitors. After few days, the hits revert back to usual. The pattern has repeated for several times already. Therefore, I can conclude that it is necessary to keep my website(s) regularly updated.

Being more efficient in terms of resources usage

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Visits on DX Media sites are increasing, thanks to search engines and our effective SEO approach. However, recent spikes of users have brought us another set of problems; resource usage. Dealing with multiple requests simultaneously requires us to take a look on the elements that use the most server resources. This is necessary as DX Media cannot afford to migrate to a semi-dedicated server (SDS) or virtual private server (VPS) at the moment.

We are looking forward to be eligible for Innity, a leading advertising agent by the end of 2014. DX Media will get its first full-time employee in June 2014 and will proceed with our extensive expansion plan from that moment onwards.

App development is still in its stagnant status, given the fact that DX Media wants to focus on increasing resource usage efficiency and also enriching contents on its website because that is DX Media’s primary revenue source.

Moving towards self-sustainability

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Getting started in a new business with small capital can be painful, especially if you are doing it full-time. Therefore, DX Media needs to focus its resources to further empower its financial capability. Revenues from Google Adsense is the most reliable and sustainable money making method as of now. Realizing the need to have good quality content, we try to customize our writings to fit our readers’ needs better.

We have less articles in tempeclub. For several weeks in a row tempeclub has seen multiple fold of visitors influx. I hope this pattern will continue for years ahead because tempeclub is intended to be a website that is catered for the whole world while LANDASAN, our main source of income now is targeted for Malaysian visitors, which has a small market segment.

DX Media strives to improve. Hailing from Stevens, “Innovation is in our DNA”.

 

Fauzan Afandi

DX Media

January 25th 2013.

Halted app development

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I was planning to embark on mobile app development during last winter break. Oh wait, winter break has not over yet. However, I was bound to another set of plans which left me with almost no free time to continue my mobile app development.

To ensure sustainability of DX Media (Malaysia), the current business model must be tweaked a bit. Instead of focusing on non-revenue sectors, we need to put more effort in revenue-generating sectors because we NEED strong financial position to sustain the life of its founder, at least. Then only we can focus more on non-revenue sector.

Our charity division, the UNITY project, will continue to function ad-free at this moment. Feel free to join us at UNITY. More info on UNITY here.