Apis Networks

Our new referral system is here!  Earn rewards faster just after 90 days.  Whenever a client mentions your e-mail address or domain name during sign-up, we’ll credit $5, $10, $20, or $30 to your account depending on the package.   Better yet, earn 150% after your first referral.  Refer more than 4 clients and each additional referral earns a 200% bonus.

Let’s say you refer 2 friends directly and post a link on your site.  2 friends sign-up immediately and 4 prospective clients stumble upon your site serendipitously, fed up with their current host.  The earning schedule would look like-

Day 1: Minimalist $5
referrals 2 – 3 are multiplied by a bonus of 1.5x
Day 5: Basic $15
Day 7: Advanced $30
referrals 4-5 receive a 2x bonus
Day 60: Basic $20
Day 90: Basic $20
referrals 6 and beyond receive a 2.5x bonus
Day 195: Minimalist $12.50

Total Earnings: $102.50

To kick off the new system, commission is doubled until the end of the year.  Make at least $10 for referring a friend or placing a link on your site to Apis.  Refer 2 friends?  Earn at least $15.  Refer 6 or more over your lifetime?  Earn no less than $12.50 for each additional person that you recommend.

Linking to Apis is just as simple.  Make a link to http://apisnetworks.com/r?myuname where myuname is the username created within the control panel (Account > Client Referrals).  Referrals made through links are good for 30 days.  Don’t worry about asking to mention your domain – it’s taken care of by the username affiliation.  Append a page location after myuname to redirect to a specific page, e.g. to redirect to the hosting package matrix use http://apisnetworks.com/r?myuname/web_hosting_packages

Enjoy!

- Matt

Our data center, Gnax, experienced a core router failure when one of its supervisor cards went offline on Monday, October 26th at 5:50 AM ET. The duration of the outage was 6 hours, when servers were brought back online. We, along with many other hosting providers, were affected by this outage disrupting not only our clients, but clients of other businesses hosted through Gnax.

Gnax has not yet disclosed the cause of the excessive duration, but it will be noted in the RFO as more information comes forth. Two routers (core A/B) feed bandwidth to all clients of the data center. Our subnet resides on core A, which experienced the disruption Monday morning.

Monday and Friday are our most important days and likewise, your most important days. Sustaining an outage for any duration longer than a coffee break is debilitating. Although we provide no expressed SLA, clients affected by this outage will receive a one month credit for compensation. Please file a ticket within the control panel requesting credit. For those paying by PayPal, a refund will be issued to the e-mail address on record with the domain. Credit card-backed payments will receive a discount on the next transaction.

- Matt

Every year around October/November our domain registrar sends an e-mail asking users to verify their contact information. The subject line is, “Important Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)” with a secure link to www.securepaynet.net. Just take a few moments to follow the link to www.securepaynet.net and verify the contact information by the special ICANN button.    Verification is not mandatory; however, strongly encouraged to make sure the e-mail address associated with the domain is current.

Registrar ICANN button location

Sample ICANN e-mail