Structure of the System
| Applications available to the public and/or TIGHAR members | |||
| TIGHAR 1.0 (HTML) | Ameliapedia (MediaWiki) | News/blog (Joomla!) | e-mail (qmail/Squirrel Mail) |
| Behind the scenes: system resources | |||
| http daemon (Apache) / PHP service | MySQL daemon (database) | qmail (watches ports) | |
| our OS: linux (Fedora 9) | |||
| real OS: Slicehost's operating system (no concern of ours) | |||
| BIOS: Basic Input/Output System (firmware; Read-Only Memory) | |||
| Hardware: CPU, bus, disk drives, ethernet card, RAM, etc. | |||
Dynamic web pages: PHP + MySQL + HTML + CSS+ javascript ==> what the user sees in the browser.
Just a slice of a pie
| per month | per year |
| $25 | $300 |
| $43 | $516 |
| $74 | $888 |
Open Source Software
We have the following packages installed:
- linux
- Apache web server (httpd = http daemon)
- PHP (server-side scripting language)
- MySQL (database)
- MediaWiki
- Joomla! content-management system (CMS)
- Simple Machines Forum
- Community Builder
- qmail
- vpopmail
- Dovecot
- Squirrel Mail
- qmailadmin
Possible additions
- Real Simple Syndication (RSS)
- Mailman (mailing list management)
- Joomla! storefront, subscription manager
- Open-Source GIS packages
