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= About the FreeBSD WWW Server

== The Machine

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image:../../gifs/powerlogo.gif[Powered by FreeBSD]

Naturally, all systems in the FreeBSD.org cluster run FreeBSD. The hardware and network connection have been generously provided by:

* https://www.bytemark.co.uk/[Bytemark Hosting]
* https://www.bbtower.co.jp[Cloud and SDN Laboratory at BroadBand Tower, Inc]
* https://www.cs.nycu.edu.tw[Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University]
* https://metal.equinix.com[Equinix]
* https://internet.asn.au/[Internet Association of Australia]
* https://www.isc.org/[Internet Systems Consortium]
* https://www.inx.net.za[INX-ZA]
* https://www.kddi-webcommunications.co.jp/[KDDI Web Communications Inc]
* https://myren.net.my[Malaysian Research & Education Network]
* https://www.metapeer.com[MetaPeer]
* https://www.nyi.net/[New York Internet]
* https://nic.br[Nic.br]
* https://your.org[Your.org]

and other link:../../donations/donors[contributors] to the FreeBSD project.

A list of general-access machines in the FreeBSD.org domain is available at the link:../machines[The FreeBSD.org Network] page.

== The Software

These pages are served up by the fast and flexible http://www.nginx.org/[NGINX webserver] and https://varnish-cache.org/[Varnish HTTP Cache].
In addition, there are a few locally crafted CGI scripts.
Indexing of the mailing list archive is provided by freewais-sf, a derivative of the CNIDR freewais.

== The Pages

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image:../../gifs/lynx.gif[Lynx Friendly logo]

The original web pages were put together by John Fieber https://people.FreeBSD.org/~jfieber/[<jfieber@FreeBSD.org>] with input from the FreeBSD community and *you*. http://wolfram.schneider.org[<wosch@FreeBSD.org>] was our first webmaster but this responsibility is now shared by a larger team of web and documentation contributors. The FreeBSD pages are valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and should degrade gracefully on any browser.

See also the link:../../docproj/[FreeBSD Documentation Project]

== Page Design

The current website design was done by Emily Boyd as part of the https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com[Google Summer of Code] program in 2005.

The original page design was done by Megan McCormack.

== Update of the FreeBSD Web Pages

The FreeBSD Web Pages on `www.FreeBSD.org` are currently rebuilt according to the following schedule:

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|Build Time (UTC) |Build type
|Every 10 minutes |If there is a change in the https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/[doc repository]
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The document link:{fdp-primer}doc-build/[FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors] describes how to build the FreeBSD documentation from the Git repository.

link:..[FreeBSD Internal Home]
