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mardox.com, membersarea.mardox.com, addasite.mardox.com, support.mardox.com, billing.mardox.com, sales.mardox.com ,api.mardox.com and ref.mardox.com (along with all ref alias domains eg: affiliates.mardox.com, referrals.mardox.com.).

We’re still installing the mardox web sites on the new server. Some members have found that they can not log-in at this time. This is due to a database issue. Our programmers need to re-script all the sites to conform with the new server configuration. We expect to have all the Mardox pages up and running within the next 48 hours.

We have finished work on viib.net and kewlrank.com. We’ve also finished installing all our current hosting clients.

We thank you for your time and understanding.

The Mardox Admin

Please check back for updates

Sorry for the downtime. We are in the process of moving to a larger server at our Server Hosting Provider. This will take a couple of days to complete.

With this change, we will start offering to our member web site hosting starting at around $9 per month.

We moved to a new server due to the increase in traffic to some of our sites. Hence, we how have the space and bandwidth too resell to our clients and members.

Thank you for your understanding.

The Mardox Administration

UPDATES:

Jan 11, 2012 @ 3:30 pm EST  – KewlRank.com will be functional soon. We expect to have the database re-installed with in the next hour our two. Next on our list of re-installs is the mardox.com members area. membersarea.mardox.com will be up and running by morning.

Jan 11, 2012 @ 5:15 pm EST  – KewlRank.com is now up and running properly. let me say “WOO HOO”, but what a mess. this was one of our first sites we put up 2 years ago. No one has updated the page since then. So now, it is a mess. I will defiantly be upgrading kewlrank.com this month.

Just wanted to let everyone know that All the Mardox web sites may be up and down over the next few days. From January 8th, 2012 until January 11th 2012.

We are conducting server migrations. Yes! That’s right! Our servers are flying south for the winter. OK just kidding.

We are currently maxing out our current account service with HostPapa.com.

Please be patient and hang in there, we will get all this ironed out soon.

If any of you have any problems then please feel free and e-mail us.

Thank you

Mardox Develoment team.

It’s been decided finally after 6 months, that Mardox will not engage in automated recurring credit card processes. Rather we are implementing a new protocol for our recurring Credit Card payments. Our members, users and clients will initiate a payment for the first time. After a stated duration. 30 days for example, the client will receive an e-mail informing them that their account is approaching it’s expiry date. The first e-mail will be sent out 1 week before the renewal date. A second e-mail will be sent out 3 days before the renewal date and one last e-mail on the expiry date.

Clients will be required to manually re-new their recurring services before the expiry date or the services will not continue.

What did we choose this route?

In the past we have had problems with recurring clients either not understanding what a recurring payment was or that they simply forgot what they were paying for. This new protocol will allow us to maintain a higher level of service for our clients and our clients will retain much more control on their payment process.

What mardox site use reoccurring payments?

So far only the Mardox Memberships require a recurring payment of 59.95 per month. All other services are setup on a as you go payment program. OpenSubmit.net will be setup on a yearly payment process with a reminder e-mail once each month.

Please feel free to leave any questions or comments on this post. We will be more then happy to review them and reply.

We thank you for reading.

The Mardox Administration

When will these upgrades occur?

These upgrades will occur throughout the date of November 29th 2011 and finish in the evening of November 30th 2011. We may require approximately 16 hours to conduct these changes.

What sites will be effected?

We are upgrading the following domains in the next 16 hours…

Kewlrank.com, Toyt.com, NiceSearch.com, OpenSubmit.net, Mardox.com and all third-level domains associated with mardox.com, Approximately 100 other web sites will be upgraded buy have no effect on any of the Mardox members or users.

What are these Upgrades.?

Some of you have noticed the downtime with our servers and sites in the past week. Although not confirmed by our hosting provider, we think the downtime is due to our programming with KewlRank.com. This web site was connecting too often and too quickly to the SQL database. In theory this would cause a site wide lock out for our users.

SQL databases have a maximum user limit. A limit per second and a limit for repeated access. These limits are designed to lockout hackers and defend the database. We are reprogramming our sites to respect a smaller Max User limit. In the past week we have also re-programmed may of our sites to access the SQL Database more efficiently.

None of these upgrades will effect our users data or personal information.

Thank you for you understanding.

The Mardox Development Team.

UPDATES

November 29th 2011, at 9:00 pm EST

We are finished with the toyt.com updates and are starting the KewlRank.com updates. Now that all the bugs are out of our new scripting, we would be able to get the changes done much faster. Those of you that use OpenSubmit.net will find that the site will be offline for a while tonight. This site is much more interactive then the others and will require a shutdown while we make the changes.

November 29th 2011, at 9:44 pm EST

Kewlrank.com is now updated and seems to be working properly. Post a comment if anyone encounters any problems.

We are almost done re-programming the www.toyt.com web sites. Users are already starting to create their accounts. You can join the web site at http://www.toyt.com. the site will be fully functional by this Monday December 5th 2011.

Users with a Mardox account will automatically have access to the toyt.com web site. Simply access your Mardox Member Area and locate the tab labeled Other Services, and select Toyt.com.

What is it? And how does it work?

Toyt.com is an ad exchange network. Our members want their ads seen on others websites and so do you. Who doesn’t want to have their ad seen on thousands of web pages?

This services is truly 100% Free. There is no trial, No catches, No upgrades and No Limits. Want to promote 10, 100 or even 1000 web pages? Then go ahead. This service depends on how many time you show other members ads on your web sites.

Lets say on Monday, you received 1,000 unique visitors to your web pages. On Tuesday your ads will be shown 1,000 times.

Referring to the previous post about our servers and sites being down. All matters have been fixed and all our web sites are functioning. We are unable to get a responce from our hosting provider as to what caused this problem. I would say that if this only happened once in the last year then we are good.

Please contact us if you notice any issues with any of the Mardox products or services.

Thank you

The Mardox Team.

We are sorry to announce that our servers are encountering some issues today. Our hosting provider is on the case and should have our sites up and running within the hour.

We are sorry for any  inconvenience.

Thank you

The Mardox Team.

UPDATE- 3:00 PM EST

Our sites are all still offline. We are not sure what is going on at this time but we are attempting to re-contact our hosting provider to find out what is going on.

Man I hate being left in the dark

UPDATE – 11:30 PM EST

We how have access to the server but the files are still missing. God I hope they are not lost. It going to take days to re-upload 20 gigs of compressed content.

More later.

UPDATE – 12:10 PM EST

Server and sites are up again but we are still working on getting all the buggs out. Anyone know of some good bug sprey?

Thank you for your understanding.

The Mardox Development Team.

We are finishing some well needed changes to our SQL database.

This maintenance window may cause our servers to go offline time to time. It will take place from midnight Est until 6 am Est.

We thank you for your understanding.

The Mardox Development team.