For the curious, here is what powers our website: All of our servers run Debian Stable with native IPv6 unless specified.
Frontend Web server
- Django 1.3
- Apache 2.2 with mod_wsgi
- nginx (SSL termination, reverse proxy and serving static files)
- jQuery
- Flowplayer
Database Server
- PostgreSQL database with PostGIS geo-spatial extensions
Development and Asynchronous Job Server
- Exim
- ClamAV
- FFMPEG
- Django 1.3
- Apache 2.2 with mod_wsgi and DAV/svn
- Trac
Development Tools
- Subversion
- Photoshop
- GIMP
- vim
- Dreamweaver
Backups
- FreeBSD with ZFS snapshotting
Statistics
As of 8th April March 2012, we are handling in roughly 200,000 HTTP requests per day (100,000 of which are dynamic) and send approximately 2GB of traffic per day.