What is ‘Marbled Fennec Networks’?
As of Jan 21st, 2026- Marbled Fennec Networks is a service provider for community run services such as game servers, websites, databases and virtual private servers. It is a space for geeks to practice server management and to play games with others.
What is ‘FurrIX’?
FurrIX, or furrix.zone, is the project that MFN obtains network connectivity from. No longer a component of MFN, FurrIX operates standalone.
Do you provide hosting or networking to just anyone?
It is not that simple. Our resources and time are limited, so we tend to limit who and what we accept into our community. Anyone can make an application through the support email, support@marbledfennec.net… We have to be mindful of current server load, network bandwidth and ability of our volunteer staff to keep up with everyone.
Whats the cost?
For community members- nothing. We don’t sell bandwidth, storage or hosting; we don’t provide support beyond getting our users up and running on the network and we don’t have a staff overhead because our project runs on a purely volunteer and amateur basis.
What about reliability of your network?
FurrIX, our network services provider, is not a commercial entity and they make no warranty of their offered services. As such, everything we deploy and operate is done so as a use-at-your-own-risk situation and is maintained to our best effort. We have maybe two techs on a good day handling tickets, creating/modifying virtual machines, working on game servers, dealing with the firewall and keeping up with our VMs. We provide no service level agreement, implied or otherwise.
While our volunteer techs do strive for quick turn around on tickets and emails, working on connections for new members and firewall and name server configuration for games; all of our volunteer staff have lives outside of the project that come first. We just do this for fun.
Will y’all be here tomorrow?
We can’t make any promises, but we always try to survive another month. It depends on having enough volunteer staff members to keep everything updated and running; as well as having the financing from our core members to keep the lights on. I’d like to say “Yes! We’ll be here until we burn out!” but in all honesty with you, the project’s wake takes a slow toll on various folks play money, plus we fund the vIX as well for network connectivity. We’ll do our best to keep marching forward for as long as the money is there to do so.