Today I fixed an issue with a web-form that involved our testing accounts receiving emails but the client was not...  The client's email server was rejecting the emails because the senders domain name was invalid.  I set a valid email address in php.ini and it works great.

Migrating a client from a $1400/yr dedicated server to a $12/year shared hosting account.  Newer server software available so they're no longer left out in the cold with PHP5

Configuring NGINX and Gunicorn servers

Understanding servers in detail has always been on my todos. Finally I had a chance to work on NGINX server. The use case I had was to serve the production build of a React app inside a docker container. On top of this, the backend for the app had to be served using a Gunicorn server which was a fairly easy task compared to static serving. 

The following tasks were achieved in the process 

• I realised using whitenoise and NGINX on the same Django project makes no sense and "It's equal to saying I'll use 2 knifes to cut the butter". They both do the same task each with different pros and cons. 
• Learnt how to setup a reverse proxy to an upstream server with load balancing provided by NGINX. 
• Develop a deeper understanding of how the requests are routed through the block model for NGINX config files work. 
• Tweak and explore working of different location block patterns to serve endpoint responses for different services based on their URI.