| Mike was too modest in wanting to post this without commentary. Fortunately I'm not so inhibited. |
All Praise is to Allah, Salah Allahu Allahee Wa Salam, Lord of the Worlds, the One and only God, without partners, who has carried our burden and seen fit to restore our site and our souls through His faithfulness. We have just completed two back-to-back server moves; with the second one unexpected and most concerning indeed. Alhamdulilah, JUS is now on the path we originally planned.
| Funny, we were talking about your extinction as well. |
When we decided to migrate to the Middle East, taking the land from the Phoenicians and Israelites we felt it was best to relocate the site however we did not know what to expect with respect to the IT infrastructure in the region.
| IT support in the Middle East? Depends, you got any kuffar webheads around? |
Some months ago, we were contacted by a Muslim IT company in Malaysia that was to have a full team of hard boys programmers and who offered to strap on assume the IT work for JUS.
| Is this out-sourcing or up-sourcing? |
We felt this was an answer to our demented prayers to Allan. Shortly after they began to work with us, they were busted lost a major contract and most of their staff headed fer the hills dispersed. We decided to locate the new servers in Malaysia safe from the evil Zionist death ray until we evaluated the resources in the Middle East on the basis that the IT company there could manage them and that this would also help to them rebuild their business.
| Um, sport, when someone is "rebuilding" a business, you might want to ask what caused it to be "unbuilt". |
From the time we began migrating the JUS site, the project was riddled with shrapnel problems. We were down for 14 days solely because we could not get the site up on the new servers.
| I realize that IIS is not exactly user friendly, but still ... |
We finally brought in western high level technicians only to discover that the servers were an 8088 PC and a 1200 baud modem âa serverâ without significant power or bandwidth to run it on. JUS is a large and complex site running a variety of killer applications and it became quickly evident that the original spec requirements had not been met and was not going to be under the terms of the pie in the sky agreement. We also discovered that the IT Company had another agenda that was not conducive to the Islamic principles we embrace.
| Penetrated by the CIA, perhaps? |
Four weeks ago, we began to set up new servers all over again. Alhamdulilah, JUS is now live on our new home. All praise is to Allah that we have been the benefactors of His mercy and blessing. In addition to our existing staff, Allah has provided us with good brothers to assist us in this and we have been able to accomplish this work quickly.
Also penetrated by the CIA. |
We are still in the process of restoring some pages and services on our site, Over the next few weeks you will also see some new additions, including regular columnists since the last ones strapped on a bomb vest, new features, a revised snuff Video store and a revised discussion forum to name a few. We encourage you to stay tuned â there is much more to come!
On a lighter note, we assume that the recent interruption to our publishing schedule now fully dispels the âCIAâ accusations! This certainly would not have happened has we had their resources! And as we have said all along â we would all be driving much better cars if that were the case!
| You're 2 for 2 there, Snuffy. |
One behalf of all of us at JUS, I sincerely thank you for your patience, support and readership through out this testing time.
| We can hardly wait, and remember to say "hi" to the CIA case officer reading your site. |
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