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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

So young padawan, are you still with us and wish to learn the Jedi ways
With our servers showing their age and the OS/toolchains aging, we needed to upgrade both hardware and software so we could develop our site in the Web 2.0 manner.
A brief description of what is considered a Web 2.0 application

Clean URLs [...]

When one is embarking on a new venture into the uncharted future, it helps to reflect on the past. We’ll take a brief detour and describe how our current setup came to be
mumineen.org first considered running its own infrastructure around end of 1995. At that time, the internet was primarily accessible in North American universities [...]

It’s been close to 10 years since mumineen.org sent that first piece of email out announcing it’s own mailing list hosted on its own infrastructure. We’ve come a long way since then with more and more services being added. We’ve grown our subscriber base as well as our website readership substantially and our infrastructure (physical [...]