====== Credits ======

Sites, people, tools, ideas, software, etc that contribute to the creation of OzBargain.

===== Hosting =====

Thanks to the following web hosting companies that OzBargain is currently using.

  * [[https://aws.amazon.com/s3/|Amazon S3]] (since February 2013). We are using S3 to host files from [[media file uploader]] and deal thumbnail images.
  * [[https://www.binarylane.com.au/|Binary Lane]] in Sydney (since July 2015). They host the main OzBargain website. See [[https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/3869350/redir|this comment]].
  * [[https://www.linode.com/|Linode]] in Fremont (since March 2008). A single 2GB VPS is used to generate daily newsletter and acted as smarthost for all out-bound emails.

===== Software/Graphics =====

OzBargain uses the following open source software.

    * [[http://drupal.org/|Drupal]] (backend for the main site)
    * [[http://www.dokuwiki.org/|Dokuwiki]] (powers OzBargain wiki)
    * [[http://nginx.net/|Nginx]] (front end webserver)
    * [[http://php.net/|PHP]] (scripting engine for the front end website)
    * [[http://python.org/|Python]] (scripting engine for many backend work)
    * [[http://www.tornadoweb.org/|Tornado Web Server]] (Python webserver to handle API calls)
    * [[http://www.mysql.com/|MySQL]] (database)
    * [[http://redis.io/|Redis]] (in-memory cache and blocking queues)
    * [[http://jquery.com/|jQuery]] (some UI work)
    * [[http://getfirefox.com/|Firefox]] (to take screenshot of deals)
    * [[http://www.linux.org/|Linux]] (OS for the server)

For the graphics and images, we use

    * [[http://www.gimp.org/|GIMP]] (for manipulating/creating bitmap images)
    * [[http://inkscape.org/|Inkscape]] (for manipulating/creating vector images)
    * [[http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/|Silk Icons at famfamfam.com]] (16x16 coloured icons)
    * [[http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/|Font Awesome]] (vector based icons)
    * [[http://gravatar.com/|Gravatar]] (user profile images)

===== Services =====

Thanks to these third party services for making certain functionalities possible on OzBargain.

   * [[http://www.geonames.org|GeoNames]] for location validation.
   * [[http://code.google.com/apis/imagesearch/|Google Image Search API]]
   * [[http://www.google.com/recaptcha|Google ReCaptcha]]
   * [[http://www.maxmind.com|MaxMind's]] [[http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country|GeoIP Lite]] for IP address to country mapping
   * [[http://dnsbl.tornevall.org/|DNSBL]] and [[http://www.stopforumspam.com/|Stop Forum Spam]] for ... stopping spam.