Web Technologies Used by my-best.uk

The Apache HTTP Server is free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and WebSocket technologies.

CherryPy is an object-oriented web application framework using the Python programming language.

Google Web Server is a proprietary web server software that Google uses for its web infrastructure. GWS is used exclusively inside Google's ecosystem for website hosting.

HP iLO is a tool that provides multiple ways to configure, update, monitor, and run servers remotely.

Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is a proprietary remote management and control system for personal computers with Intel CPUs.

Nginx is a web server and reverse proxy software. It is also used as a load balancer, HTTP cache and a mail proxy server. It is open source and free, and is known for its high performance and stability. Nginx is designed to handle a large number of concurrent connections and can easily scale to meet the needs of a high-traffic website. It is used by some of the world's most popular websites, including Netflix, WordPress, and Dropbox.

OpenResty is a web platform that aims to run server-side web app completely in the Nginx server, leveraging Nginx's event model to do non-blocking I/O not only with the HTTP clients, but also with remote backends like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Memcached, and Redis.

Phusion Passenger is a free web server and application server with support for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Tengine is a web server which is based on the Nginx HTTP server.

Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.

Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimised for speed-critical environment.

OpenSSL is a software library for applications that secure communications over computer networks against eavesdropping or need to identify the party at the other end. It is widely used by Internet servers, including the majority of HTTPS websites.

Mod_auth_pam is used to configure ways for authenticating users.

Mod_dav is an Apache module to provide WebDAV capabilities for your Apache web server. It is an open-source module, provided under an Apache-style license.

Mod_fcgid is a high performance alternative to mod_cgi or mod_cgid, which starts a sufficient number instances of the CGI program to handle concurrent requests, and these programs remain running to handle further incoming requests.

Mod_jk is an Apache module used to connect the Tomcat servlet container with web servers such as Apache, iPlanet, Sun ONE (formerly Netscape) and even IIS using the Apache JServ Protocol. A web server waits for client HTTP requests.

Mod_perl is an optional module for the Apache HTTP server. It embeds a Perl interpreter into the Apache server. In addition to allowing Apache modules to be written in the Perl programming language, it allows the Apache web server to be dynamically configured by Perl programs.

Mod_rack is a free web server and application server with support for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

Mod_rails is a free web server and application server with support for Ruby, Python and Node.js.

mod_ssl is an optional module for the Apache HTTP Server. It provides strong cryptography for the Apache web server via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocols by the help of the open-source SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL.

Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages.

Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language, and a garbage-collected runtime system.

Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. PHP code may be executed with a command line interface (CLI), embedded into HTML code, or used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.

Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

Darwin is the open-source operating system from Apple that forms the basis for macOS.

Debian is a Unix-like operating system consisting entirely of free and open-source software.

Fedora is a free open-source Linux-based operating system.

FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market.

SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems.

Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix.

Ubuntu is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Debian.

Windows CE is an operating system designed for small footprint devices or embedded systems.

Windows Server is a brand name for a group of server operating systems released by Microsoft. It includes all Windows operating systems that are branded "Windows Server", but not any other Microsoft product.

Splunkd is the system process that handles indexing, searching, forwarding.

Webmin is a free, open-source application for Linux server administration.

cPanel is a web hosting control panel. The software provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a website.

Oracle Web Cache is a browser and content management server, which improves the performance of web sites.