Tech we Use: Part 1 – External Web

Motherboard I enjoy reading lists of the tech that other organizations use, like the posts from Brian Bailey and 37signals which have provided insight and ideas as we build our own environment. So here is the first of a series of posts on the technology we use at St. Mark’s. I’ll begin with our external web environment.

Registrars: Dotster for most of our domains, hopefully all of them soon.
DNS: easyDNS
ISP: Cox – We have a 3mb pipe on a fiber SONET ring.

Firewall: Cisco PIX
Hardware: Sony Vaio PCV-RS420 P4 2.8, 1 GB RAM, 2 120 GB RAID 1

Operating System: CentOS-4
Web Server: Apache
Database: MySQL
Language: PHP

Content Management System: Joomla!, evaluating Drupal for future use.
Weblogs: WordPress
Photo Albums: Gallery
Web Stats: AWStats

Text/Code Editor: SciTE
Graphics Editor: GIMP
WYSIWYG HTML Editor: NVU
File Transfer: WinSCP
SSH Client: PuTTY

We are considering collocating our web server instead of running it in house so that we won’t be restrained by our 3mb pipe on bandwidth.

I would love to hear what you are using or your opinion on what we use, please feel free to comment.

2 Responses to “ Tech we Use: Part 1 – External Web ”

Jeffrey Thompson says:

July 27, 2006 at 1:11 pm

I like Ubuntu Linux http://www.ubuntu.com/ which is very easy to load up and use.

The latest neat hardware item I came across on Jason Powell’s Blog is: USB to SATA II/IDE cable ; can plug two hard drives up at a time without rebooting (!!) http://itdiscuss.org/index.php?t=msg&th=56&start=0

For a good IT Discussion web board (with RSS Feed!) and associated integrated email list check out the web board at:

Web Board: http://itdiscuss.org
Email List: http://itdiscuss.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

I’m also into Open Source solutions and Microsoft solutions (that work

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