One of our Providers, DreamHost.com, how informed us that there could be some downtime this Friday.

Kernel Upgrade March 12 – Midnight PST

We are upgrading kernels on the homie cluster at midnight this Friday.  This move will migrate us to the 2.6.32 kernel series which is the next long-term stable branch that is being supported by the stable team (replacing 2.6.27).  Each machine will be brought offline only for the amount of time required for a reboot so downtime will be minimal for individual sites.

thank you for your understanding.

Mardox Admin.

It has come to our attention that not all our users use RSS feeds or twitter notification of the changes at Mardox.com.

So, the new Mardox announcement list is ready. We encourage any users, members and clients to sign up to our announcement list. This email list will allow us to inform you when there are new blog postings regarding Mardox products and services.

This is not a spam list or marketing tool. You will only receive short email messages informing you that a new blog entry has been posted at the Mardox site. » Continue reading “New Mardox announcement list”

For those of you who already have an AdsFreak banner running on your sites, the old HTML will  continue to work but we suggest that you update your sites with the new HTML code. We will not take down the old rotation script for quite a while. We will take down the old rotation in the future, but we will warn you when that time comes. » Continue reading “It’s Finally here! The new AdsFreak HTML is Ready.”

The week has come and gone and with all the things on my list, it seems that virtually nothing was done.

I am sorry for those of you who may not know what the mentioned web sites are. If you find a web site mentioned in this blog and you do not know what it is then click on the link for that site.

The development team managed to fix the hacking issues in AdsFreak.net and the update script for AdsFreak will be tonight. » Continue reading “Weekend update”

below is a blog posting from one of our providers. DreamHost.com notified us that there will be a maintenance window this Sunday night to Monday morning.

Blog entry from DreamHost.com

There will be a network maintenance window this Sunday night Monday morning.  We will be changing routing policies and improving our “blackhole” server to better protect you.   » Continue reading “Maintenance Window on March 7th”

We are still working on the development of the AdsFreak.net credits tracking system. We want to ensure our users that all the credits that are due are valid and will be credited later today. Our programmers are activlly working on the update scripts that will automaticlly update our users accounts. Updates will happen once per day. » Continue reading “AdsFreak.net Update”

We would like to inform our users that one of our network providers will be conducting preventative maintenance on their backup power systems. March 3rd 2010 and on March 6th 2010.

We do not expect any downtime but be advised that with any form of maintenance there could be down time. » Continue reading “Network maintenance.”

On Sunday, February 28th 2010, Our Partner “IBILL.net” was found in this press release. We find that after quite a few years of doing business with Ibill, we never had a single problem with them. But this article show that for once a web based company is willing to go above and beyond the call of duty. Keep up the good work Ibill.

This is the article that was found at : http://www.xbiz.com/news/118099

—- Press Release starts here —-

DENVER — iBill says it plans to honor all promissory notes issued by the former company of the same name. » Continue reading “iBill Plans to Cover Merchant Debts of Former Company”

Wow! Its Monday morning on March 1^st 2010. What happened to the weekend? Did we miss something? I know I worked on the Mardox web site over the weekend, but everything I worked on is all behind the scenes work. Nothing that would show up for the public too see. What a bummer. So! Where are we now?

Last Week.

Last week we had many updates and we crushed out some more bugs in the User Login Interface. AdsFreak.net users were able to open their accounts and obtain their HTML automatically. We fixed 3 problems with the banner tracking systems. Like I said all stuff that the average user would not even notice. » Continue reading “Weekly Update”

What is the difference between Kewlrank.com and Alexa.com?

I’ve been asked a couple of times what the difference is between KewlRank and Alexa. I’m going to expand this question in simple detail. I am not going to include the Big “G”. As it stands the Google PageRank system is not clear. any how the Google Page Rank system is only used in the Google search engine. So lets keep this explanation to Alexa and KewlRank.

Lets start off by explaining what these two names are for those of you who have no idea what web page ranks are. KewlRank and Alexa are systems designed to rank or index web pages in the search engines. There are two sides to these systems. One is the User side, (You). You need to get your rank up. the other side is the search engines and web directories. They need to obtain this ranking information to update their web listings. » Continue reading “The difference between KewlRank and Alexa”

Users may now log into their Mardox accounts from most of the Mardox web sites. We have included a snapshot of what our login box looks like. Remember to look for the Mardox Security Icon. The Mardox Security Icon is that big letter “M” in the top left corner of the Login Box. If at any time you are not sure of what you are logging into, then click the icon or use the link that says “Use secure Login”. In any case our users will always be logged into our secure SSL site located at https://secure.mardox.com/ » Continue reading “Login Box is now available.”

Hello everyone.

In January of 2010, we looked into some nasty issues with free web page submissions. Please refer to these links for our previous postings on this topic.
Web Page Submissions issues.
Web Page Submissions issues. UPDATE!

lets start with what is going on. This refers to all search engines, web directories and link sites that accept free web page submissions.

On a daily basis, search engines and other sites, receive between 4,000 and 16,000 web page submissions per day. Some of the more popular search engine receive over 1.5 million submissions daily. Of these only 0.1% to 1% are human submitted. So this means that only 40 – 160 real live humans do the work by hand to submit their web sites. » Continue reading “Free Web Page Submissions. Changes! READ THIS!”

Refer to our past posting on this topic. :
http://www.blog.mardox.com/archives/38

We are still working on correcting the issues with our web site submission page. Friday, February 26th 2010, our new web site submissions page will be available.

We want to iterate one thing while we are on the topic. Some users have e-mailed us complaining about problems with the “FREE” web site submissions site. emphasis on the word FREE. This is a free service and not one that is very high on our list of development projects. Our developers are currently working on 19 different projects. In January 2010 we started to look into these web site submission issues. User need to understand that when a service is free, it is usually last to get worked on. » Continue reading “Web Page Submissions issues. UPDATE!”

Good news everyone. Our brand New User Panel is almost ready for general use. On Thursday, February 25th 2010, we will be allowing users to open a free Mardox Login Account.

Our User Panel or otherwise known as our Account Login site, will allow you to track all your previous, current, and future orders. This interface will provide a single access point for all your tracking ID codes.

You will also be able to obtain the HTML for AdsFreak.net. This service provides you with the means of earning credits towards future products and services at Mardox.com. » Continue reading “User Panel is almost ready.”

Hello all,

I have personally been in contact with a couple of users who find that they are not able to add their web sites to the Mardox search engine database.

I want to a sure everyone that we are working on the problem and that the issues are next on our list of things too correct.

This is not a glitch or bug so much as an abuse issue. There are people on the internet who feel that it’s their god given right to submit their web sites to the search engines hundreds of time per day. Mardox is not the only search engine facing this problem. All the search engines have to deal with this on a daily basis. » Continue reading “Web Page Submissions issues.”

We are going to be working on the login section of the Mardox web site. This is located at http://secure.mardox.com. Saturday 20th untill Monday 22nd 2010. At times there will be limited or no access to this part of our web site. These delays and downtime issues are necessary for new upgrades and security patches.

As usual, if anyone experiences any bugs or problems, we suggest that you point them out. We will credit users $5 every time a problem is pointed out and fixed. » Continue reading “Upgrades to the Users Login.”

Over the past two days we have been noticing issues with the Mardox web sites. This includes some of our hi-traffic web sites.

We have been notified by our current hosting provider (DreamHost.com) that we are exceeding our limits for our current hosting package. All the Mardox sites are being moved to a newer and more powerful server. There could be some downtime today. » Continue reading “New Upgrades for the entire Mardox.com network.”

For the next couple of days we will be upgrading some of our servers with new security upgrades. One of these upgrades is the long overdue SSL certificate for secure.mardox.com. This SSL install will allow us to provide a secure and encrypted browser access for our clients files.

We are sorry for any downtime or unexpected web site malfunctions. We are trying to do these upgrades without hindering normal operations of our web servers. We may need to reboot our servers from time to time over the next couple of days. » Continue reading “New Security upgrades for the Mardox servers.”

From the staff of Mardox, we wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa and generally, Happy Holidays. We hope your holiday’s are enjoyable and safe.

- The Mardox Staff

We are currently working on our clients and members login system. We want to take this time to inform our users that this login system maybe inaccessible at times for the next 72 hours.

We are adding new features, and services to the login site. By this Monday we will have the Sign-up function available to new users. We are also implementing new security measures to our user accounts.

We would like to hear from you. If you have any suggestions for new features then feel free to contact us. Either post a reply to this blog or contact us at http://www.mardox.com/contactus.php.

We want to thank you for your time and understanding.

Happy holidays to all form the entire staff at Mardox.com

We are very sorry for the downtime on the Mardox network on December, 16 2009. This downtime effected Toyt.com, KewlRank.com nicesearch.com, opensubmit.net and most of the Mardox.com sub-domains. We have found the problem and it has been corrected.

We have notices that some of our clients are trying to access blog.mardox.com during downtime and are not able too. We are working on getting the Mardox Blog site moved to a separate set of hosting servers. We should have a solution by the end of next week.

If you are a client and want to be informed at all times with what is going on at Mardox.com, you should follow us on twitter. http://www.twitter.com/mardox1

We are sorry for this downtime and thank you for your understanding.

We’ve had a problem with kewlrank.com in the past month. On and off we have seen broken images from the kewlrank, (On The Fly), image producer. Until now we were unable to localize the problem.

At first we thought that the image glitch was due to a security measure at the remove site. Some web site do not broadcast their hostname. Therefore not allowing us to process the information needed, properly.

We’ve since found that the problem was in our image processor. The problem is fixed. Now your KewlRank.com buttons and banners will work on any site. We want to thank all of you who took the time to notify us of this problem. With out you we would have never known that this problem existed.

So it’s the 4th of December 2009 and I finally got the stats for this month so far. Kewlrank.com is still getting a solid flow of traffic and it keeps going up. Based on the past three days, we can see that December 1st 2009, there was 227,488 hits to kewlrank.com. December 2nd 2009, there was 185,357 hits and December 3rd 2009, there was 225,864 total hits.

This comes to a total of 645,919 hits in three days to the kewlrank.com. If we multiply these amounts by 10 we get 30 days and between 6,100,000 hits and 8,000,000 hits to the site.

This is great considering we have done nothing at all to promote the service. What is interesting is that the total amount of traffic has been doubling every month. October was 1.4 million, November was 2.8 Million and now we may see over 6 million hits.

We are applying new security measures to our web sites. We are getting much stricter on e-mail address use. This refers to the input of false or non-valid e-mail address on our sites. We find that many people provide invalid e-mail address during the ordering process. This in turn may send an e-mail to someone else’s e-mail address. This activity could prove to be a major security risk on your part.

Example of web sites at Mardox with forms.
http://www.mardox.com/addasite.php
and the our central order form system.
http://secure.mardox.com/ » Continue reading “New e-mail address security.”

We’ve arrives at the end of November and the web stats are available. Some of you already know KewlRank is only 4 months old. I am going to break down the traffic to kewlrank.com for the past four months.

August 2009 , we received a grand total of 6211 visitors. This was funny because we did nothing at all to promote the site. This traffic was simply from our closest system Administrators,  Developers and beta testers.

September 2009, there was a total of 37,460 visits. By this time we had put kewlrank.com on the back burner and went on to some other projects that needed our attention. The kewlrank site continued and obviously there was traffic. » Continue reading “Statistics update for KewlRank.com.”