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

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

• Amazon S3 (since February 2013). We are using S3 to host files from Media File Uploader and deal thumbnail images.
• Binary Lane in Sydney (since July 2015). They host the main OzBargain website. See this comment.
• 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.

OzBargain uses the following open source software.

• Drupal (backend for the main site)
• Dokuwiki (powers OzBargain wiki)
• Nginx (front end webserver)
• PHP (scripting engine for the front end website)
• Python (scripting engine for many backend work)
• Tornado Web Server (Python webserver to handle API calls)
• MySQL (database)
• Redis (in-memory cache and blocking queues)
• jQuery (some UI work)
• Firefox (to take screenshot of deals)
• Linux (OS for the server)

For the graphics and images, we use

• GIMP (for manipulating/creating bitmap images)
• Inkscape (for manipulating/creating vector images)
• Silk Icons at famfamfam.com (16×16 coloured icons)
• Font Awesome (vector based icons)
• Gravatar (user profile images)

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

• GeoNames for location validation.
• Google Image Search API
• Google ReCaptcha
• MaxMind's GeoIP Lite for IP address to country mapping
• DNSBL and Stop Forum Spam for … stopping spam.