Since quite a few Web hosting companies have their own blog we at MPADC have decided to create our own blog and join in the hype!
Aim of this blog is to keep our Clients and any Potential clients uptodate with regards to our Webhosting Services.
Here we will post any updates, issues, new things, old things, whats going on and what not and anything and just everything relevant and useful inshallah!
Anyway I thought since this is our first blog post i would post a bit about what we are who we are!
MPADC.com (aka Muslim Programmers and Designers Community) Yeh long and obscure name i know! But done for Search Engine Purposes in a way long complicated Stuff... we started back in April 2003, Just a small discussion forum...why it was created well we just decided that the internet was missing a community for muslim web designers to unite and discuss! Something we could not find anywhere but thought why not give it a crack and start something up worth a shot!
This was what our page looked like back in April 2003
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MPADC.com
Muslim Programmers and Designer Community
You are being directed to the forum now if you have to wait longer then 5 seconds please click here
This was what our page looked like!! Just a few lines of Text
Then few months down the line we decided to move on to something a bit more "cool"http://web.archive.org/web/20031022143649/http://www.mpadc.com/
AT that time were were providing Webdesign, Tutorials and Graphics stuff basically a bit like a reference
Then We decided to go all Orangy
http://web.archive.org/web/20040327001752/forums.mpadc.com/
There is a host of other Weird and Fancy Screenshots you can see here
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mpadc.com
We Then Went into the Web hosting business around December 2003, Starting off buying a reseller account then selling webhosting from there! Once we outgrew a few months later we then moved on to a VPS Server then eventually moving on to a dedicated server 1 year later. Hefty but Scary move for us!
But alhumdulillah it has been all good we have encountered many problems as of course being one of the Very few Muslim Webhosts and back many years ago when Political issues was red hot may people thought that they could host their extreme Jihad material on our servers simply because we were muslim and that we had to follow their views! So Unfortunately Several Websites manage to find their ways on to our servers without us knowing about it, which now all have been shut down...
Yes we do believe in people able to air their views but there is a limit when it becomes too extreme! Besides we were not in a position to let down our "Genunine Clients" ! But those were the days we got by..........
but now nearly 5 years on well Nearly I say April 2008 we will be 5 years on alhumdulillah have progressed on quite well with Several dedicated servers hosting 100's of Websites!
We also host alot of Non Muslim Oriented website, just because we Have "Muslim" on our name does not mean it is for Muslims only! Hence the name Muslim was there originally targeted at Muslim Webmasters! But if you have a Website that is non Islamic or if you are a non muslim you are more then Welcome to host with us, give us a go and we wont let you down :-) Actually having said that 40% Websites hosted on our box are not of Islamic Nature meaning they are Business Websites or Personal Sites!
Anyway Now who is who behind MPADC..ever wondered who that mysterious person is that replies to your helpdesk ticket 2am in the morning...or who is the one that is up all night restoring the servers if it has suffered a crash......We have only had 2 Major Crashes but alhumdullilah we got through them well. Will post more on crashes on another post later on inshallah as well as other things and useful hints and tips about your account and a host of other stuff...feel free to comment here if you want!
Here are the Team Members and Roles
Sajid - (Yup the one that made this first post) - What i do well i just sit down and oversee things making sure everything is ok on a daily basis...assisting with strategy and development and new products...and also staying up all night incase the server crashes and main point of contact for any customer issues
Mazoor A (The one with the Eid Gifts) - Mazoor been with us for a good few years now the one that deals with the sales enquiries and occasional Support when he can help and if he can help! Also the one that if you be really really nice to him he may give you a free upgrade or a good plan!
Mohammed Sabil Razali - Co-ordinator of MuslimDot.com our other network and does some of the budgeting stuff (when his not travelling around)
Imran Syed - Technical administrator - helps with the technical aspects of the Server
Ibn Batutah - Our Graphics design guy! All those flashy Graphics you see on the website done by him
Moazzam Khan - Our Chief PHP Programmer - the one that if you give him a notepad and a bit of code he turns it into something!
Abdul Basit - Works on Helpdesk the nice polite guy that helps you if you have any issues
and of course those of you with helpdesk ticket you will find a mysterious character called
"Staff1" - lets just say he likes to stay anonymous for now :)
We are based in UK, Gloucestershire to be precise. Part of our team members are based around the globe, We have servers located in USA, Canada and UK
Anyway thats all for now will post more later on Inshallah keep an eye on this blog for more stuff!
Wassalam
Sajid
MPADC.com!
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