Ok McBidzers we have just completed a three day upgrade to our servers here at McBidz.com We were noticing some lag when we started taking a look at our popular McVidz video section and indeed our servers crashed twice within the last three months because of too many members playing videos at the same time. This will be our 3′rd upgrade to our servers this year; our guys were working literally around the clock for 3 days to get us back online configuring the scripts to the new server specs. So what we have now are two servers running the site as well as “off-site” backup servers which do complete backups of the entire site nightly in case of a major malfunction on our main servers.

Have you noticed our new advertisers?  Sirus Radio, 1-800-flowers, Tri-City New Balance, Hanes, & Wine.com. Please be sure to check them out as well as our long standing brands we have had on McBidz for months now. Our advertisers continue to believe in the future of the McBidz brand and we want to be sure to show them good traffic.

Stay safe and keep spreading the BUZZ on McBidz. Don’t forget to DIGG us www.Digg.com !

Welcoming the New Year yesterday afternoon with a large group of friends at an oyster roast in Summerville, SC had me reminiscing what we have accomplished here at McBidz in 09’. Completed the complicated process of finishing up the programming for such a huge site, gaining national exposure through our TV ads and social networking activities, tens of thousands of new member “McBidzers” and the launch day activities we rolled out in both New York’s “Time Square” and Atlanta Georgia’s “Underground” on the same day with two large street teams in each location.

 As mentioned in the previous post several days ago the plans for 2010 are even more aggressive. Our webmaster, several programmers, and I had discussions on our traffic levels and started to turn the talks towards advertising for both large & small business here on McBidz. Even though we have had a number of well known companies advertising here (iTunes, Hotwire, Tiger direct, 1800petmeds, Netflix, & Microsoft) we feel it is now time to expand our sales group throughout the country and have current openings in SC, NY, Ca, & Fl for an Outside Sales account Executive, here is a current ad posted in NY http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/sls/1530151153.html. This will further benefit our membership as we continue to expand and solidify our position as the one stop on the internet to accomplish all tasks.

 Have a great New Years Day! Stay safe.