Website Software

This site was written for those fellow web masters out there who are interested in the softwareSoftware is a set of instructions that is in a form that a computer can execute. powering my website, who my web host is, and other information about my website's backend.

Hosting Provider & Registrar

My current registrar and hosting company is the small, employee-owned company DreamHost. I have a shared hosting account with them, and sometimes their database access times can be a bit slow. This can be an annoyance, as my site uses a database to store its information. However, they give me a lot of bang for my buck, and I like being able to back a small company. For the interested, they give me:

• unlimited bandwidth
• unlimited space
• automated archived backups of my databases
• SSH and FTP access

Their systems run:

• Operating SystemAn Operating System, or OS, is a piece of software that allows a computer how to interact with a person, and how to allow that person to use any devices (such as a keyboard or mouse) attached to the computer. If your computer was a car, you could think of your OS as being your brakes, steering wheel, turn signal, and other things that you use to control your car. There are a bunch of different OSes out there, just like there are different car manufacturers. Some OSes include: Microsoft Windows
• Apple MacOS X
• the many flavors of Linux, including:
  • Ubuntu
  • Fedora
  • SuSE

: Linux Web Server: Apache 2 / PHP 5.2 / MySQL 5.0

Content Management System

I did not code this site by hand. I use the open-source softwareSoftware is a set of instructions that is in a form that a computer can execute. package known as Drupal to power my website. Drupal is a content management system. On the backend, it stores all of the actual site content in a database rather then flat files.

Look and Feel

I didn't make the site look-and-feel either. That was made by Matteo Leoni, and is called Marinelli.

The images in the header are mine however. They are snippets from some of my amateur photography, specifically the images taken around Lakewood. The images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative License.