Website's open source technology stack

Here's a quick outline of open source technologies used to power the site.

• Python 3 using Django web framework and Gunicorn server
• Nginx frontend server for static files with reverse proxy to backend
• MySQL 8 database
• HTML5 / SASS / jQuery
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

...and here are some of the open source applications that were developed for this site.

Website currently runs on 2 x 4GB RAM SSD Ubuntu 20.04 servers hosted by Linode in their London data centre:

• Primary database server
• Main web server (database replication, PostFix mail server, git repository)
  • extended disk volume for storage of image uploads

Development tools:

• Git and SourceTree, which allows deployment using just git push and pull
• PyCharm a great text editor and IDE for Python programming
• ssh, fabric for admin, backups and syncing

Created: 2025-12-05 07:04:53.127948

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