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The Mumineen.org team is in the process of making changes to the infrastructure that powers our site. The benefits are a centralized engine for processing akhbar and news, and increased use of RSS feeds to power the front page. We have also made enhancements to the salaat timing code and will be introducing a new [...]

Moving Ahead

After our server meltdown, we’re taking a hard look at what direction our services should take in the future. We know what we like to see, but at the same time we know we’re not representative of those who visit our site. We’d really like to get some feedback from our readers. What parts of [...]

In a previous post, we identified that our userbase wants to download content such as audio and video of various miqats and of Aqa Maula (TUS) to their local machine. It’s only community sites such as Sautul Iman who want to stream their content due to their need to protect their IP and their revenue [...]

Our community the Dawoodi Bohras regularly publishes CD’s whether they are from Sautul Iman or CD’s published by various zakereens or even audio CD’s containing nasihaats such as “Allah Taala na Hamd’, ‘Biraadar tu Nasihaat sun’.
What we lack is information about the tracks on the CD’s being published to sites such as Gracenote and FreeDB [...]

Our community, the Dawoodi Bohras have a rich and varied oral tradition which is expressed in the forms of qasidas, marthiyas, naats, munajaats and the recital of Quran-e-Majeed. Over the years, we have tried to aggregate examples of our oral tradition and made them available at our audio site.
On our audio site, at present [...]

Waiting for some hardware

We are for some hardware so that we can run our mailing list engine on a separate box so as not to cause sysadmin grief when running multiple MTA’s on the same OS instance. It’s not that it’s not possible to run such a setup but such things are best left to people who [...]

Extract of mail traffic summary

Per-Day Traffic Summary
date received delivered deferred bounced rejected
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Nov 20 2005 83 22 [...]

webserver upgrade

It seems that APC is causing some issue with our Wordpress installation so we’ve disabled it for now.
We took this opportunity to upgrade our webserver to run Apache 2.2 for which readers may find the list of new features interesting. We’ve also got PHP 5.1.1 installed and volunteers experienced with our content tool-chain [...]

software upgrades

Sorry, it’s been a while since the last post. Real life interfered for some volunteers but still software toolchains were upgraded and we have migrated our authorative DNS servers to the new server
Our DNS server is tinydns . This has been our choice for a long time primarily for its ease of use, security (it [...]






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