Posts made by Usman Asar

Moodle in English -> General help -> Increase File Upload Size -> Re: Increase File Upload Size

by Usman Asar -

Hi, what settings you've changed in php.ini

you'll be looking at

upload_max_filesize

post_max_size

to ensure file upload works correctly, keep post_max_size directive a little higher than upload_max_filesize, so for example you want to upload 500MB, then set it like this

upload_max_filesize = 500MB

post_max_size = 501MB



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Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Bandwidth required in Server to use Moodle collaborate -> Re: Bandwidth required in Server to use Moodle collaborate

by Usman Asar -
Carmen, which version includes video conferencing tool? Moodle doesn't comes with video conferencing included, however there are external plug-ins that would help you achieve that.
Big Blue Button is mainly used, but for that you'll be setting up additional server (Based on Apache TomCat) as BBB doesn't runs on standard HTTP servers, for setting up BBB you'll have to rely on upstream bandwidth, else you can look for third part providers who can provide BBB that you can integrate in your moodle. If you're setting up own BBB, then make sure that 1Gb/s bandwidth is dedicated and not shared.

Then there are choices of Zoom or Microsoft Teams - both will not require high bandwidth on your servers - they essentially fetch presenter's video and convert into streams to be presented to 'n' number of audiences.

The dedicated server you mentioned, switch the hard drives to serve 400 concurrent - I meant use SSD's for operations and HDD's for storage.


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Moodle in English -> General help -> Learning Moodle in depth -> Re: Learning Moodle in depth

by Usman Asar -

I wouldn't want to get into server setup details if I could do with avoiding those

A Building without a strong foundation, will fall down eventually!

Look around this forum, and you'll find plenty of people seeking help for same cause, having troubles after setting up servers on shared hosting. A good amount of configuration is needed to setup moodle properly. Essentially, you got to have control over your server is order to optimize it for moodle.


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Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Server resources -> Re: Server resources

by Usman Asar -

Ann, recommendation of a Dedicated server is not wrong, but not right as well. I can understand the hosting provider's tactics to lighten up your wallet - no surprise there.

Moodle core developers have one thing in mind, moodle administrator's ability to play with everything on their server, which is only possible with Dedicated, VDS or VPS, But this does not mean moodle cannot be installed on shared hosting, but which shared hosting? this really matters, a standard shared hosting (which you'll find everywhere) should only be used for moodle as absolute start (less than 100 users) or as staging server (Testing for your production server), try getting enterprise class/business class shared hosting, they tend to be slightly expensive but have more allocated resources, see if hostpapa have something to offer like that, rather than jumping straight to dedicated as per their recommendation.

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