Gigabit is a Malaysian internet hosting and IT infrastructure company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Gigabit's core product is bare metal server hosting — leasing dedicated physical servers to businesses that need full control over computing resources without virtualization. Beyond bare metal, Gigabit sells colocation, VPS, cloud hosting, cybersecurity services (primarily WAF and anti-DDoS protection), disaster recovery and cloud storage via its Gigaspace product, and CDN services. Gigabit also resells enterprise hardware (servers, storage, networking equipment) directly to businesses, making hardware a secondary revenue stream alongside its primary services business. Services account for roughly two-thirds of revenue and carry meaningfully higher margins than hardware, which is a lower-margin, transactional business. The services business runs on recurring subscription contracts, creating predictable cash flows and high switching costs once a customer's infrastructure is embedded in Gigabit's data centers. Gigabit sells directly to SMEs and enterprise customers across banking, telecom, oil & gas, and education through an in-house sales team. The company operates roughly 5,300 bare metal servers, owns and operates data centers in Malaysia and Hong Kong, and leases rack space in Taiwan and Japan. Malaysia accounts for roughly 59% of revenue, with Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan making up the rest. Gigabit plans to expand into the U.S., Singapore, and Australia using a similar leased-rack model, and is building out a dedicated Security Operations Center to grow its cybersecurity business.
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