About us
Ostiara is made by Choi Ming Lei, founded in 2026 in Malaysia. It exists because the businesses that most need a website are the ones least able to pay someone to keep one running.
The problem we started from
A small shop, clinic or workshop that wants a website has three options today. Pay an agency a few thousand ringgit and then pay again for every change. Use a page builder and discover the monthly fee climbs the moment you want anything specific. Or ask a relative who knows computers, and quietly accept that the site will stop being updated the month they get busy.
The tools professional developers use would solve this. They are fast, cheap to run and reliable, but they assume you already know what a build step, a DNS record and a deployment pipeline are. That assumption is the entire barrier. Nothing about running a coffee shop teaches you those words, and nothing should have to.
What we decided to do about it
Ostiara takes the same infrastructure a developer would use and removes every step that requires knowing it. You upload a file. We work out what kind of project it is, build it, check it, and give you an address. When something is wrong we say what is wrong in ordinary words and what to do next, not an error code.
Two decisions follow from that and are not up for revision. The free plan is permanent, not a trial that quietly ends. A business that puts its opening hours online should not find them gone in thirty days. And nothing is ever deleted because you stopped paying. Downgrading takes a site offline, and switching back brings it up exactly as it was.
Who is behind it
One person. Ostiara is designed, built and run by Choi Ming Lei. There is no support tier and no queue. An email to support@ostiara.com reaches the person who wrote the code.
That is worth stating plainly rather than dressing up as a team, because it changes what you can expect. It means direct answers and quick changes. It also means we are honest about what is not built yet. You can read exactly which parts are finished on the security page, and the answer to "can I take card payments yet" is still no.
Where it runs
On Amazon Web Services in the Singapore region, which is the closest region to Malaysian visitors. Your files and your websites' data stay there. Payments are handled by the card network's own hosted checkout when they are switched on, so card numbers never reach our systems at all.