Tried to migrate jamaats.mumineen.org but didn’t factor in various issues related to salaat databases. We have rolled it back. It’s time for a change of scenery and we’ll move on to migrate our incoming mail server

Some of our readers have asked us what are the qualifications required to work with mumineen.org . Do you have to be Ph.D in Computer Science to understand the server infrastructure or be a full-time professional in Web design to do layout and content.
The answer is neither. mumineen.org volunteers come from varied backgrounds. [...]

Many developers assume that the performance of a website depends on the server’s CPU performance and the connectivity of the server to its ISP.
Whilst this is true, another important factor on server performance is how the connectivity characteristic of the sites end-users impacts it
Keep in mind that a dynamic website consists of 2 components, creation [...]

A website developer should always strive to provide a better user experience, with a combination of a design and layout where the information the end user seeks is easily available and a performant site so the user is not experiencing the World Wide Wait.
An engineer deals in terms of tradeoffs. With Moore’s Law showing no [...]

Astute readers will remember this post where we alluded to the setup of a web-server for dynamic content.
We’ve also mentioned our use of Linux,Apache and PHP. In the Free/Libre/Open Source Software world, the use of these software solutions typically alongwith a database such as MySQL is known as using a LAMP software stack.
The ability of [...]

A few of our intrepid HTML commandos tried connecting to the shiny new all singing dancing PureFTPD server. Some got through okay (hey, the server ninjas verified there username/password before giving them the go ahead) but some were stumped when they couldn’t connect
Here’s a few things HTML commandos and users of the ftp server should [...]

So we have a scalable webserver for our static content, now we need to let our crack HTML commandos upload new photos,audio,video to it. For that we need a FTP server.
On our old server, our FTP work-horse was Proftpd. However, we’ve been using it with various patches which are not applicable to the new version [...]

In the last post we discussed how sending Cache-friendly headers made for a much more enjoyable experience for site visitors and also helped reduce bandwith usage and lowered costs for operators.
Let’s say you are web developer showing of your l33t Photoshop skills on such a site and you upload a gif or a png called [...]

The task is simple, setup a webserver to serve images,videos,audios and other static content as fast as possible and as efficiently as possible. A simplistic view would be to just get some fat pipes and a uber-fast i/o system and pump the bits out with a webserver such as Apache .
A few things to keep [...]

When one is faced with migrating a site to a fresh canvas so as to speak, there is a tendency to go for a big bang type launch and try and move everything en-mass and do a cut-over. This is very risky. It’s much better to take smaller sized bites
Let’s review what we have to [...]