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WordPress is an open source blog publishing and content management system, based on PHP and MySQL.

Discourse is an open source discussion platform written in Ruby on Rails.

PHP is a scripting language for creating websites.

Ruby is a general-purpose object-oriented language originally developed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, often used within web pages.

jQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

Bootstrap is an open source HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework.

The LiteSpeed Web Server is a lightweight web server by LiteSpeed Technologies.

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Unix is a range of operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs. This includes Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux.

Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting and WHG Hosting Services) is a US-based web hosting provider.

Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) offers managed Discourse hosting.

Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting and WHG Hosting Services) is a US-based web hosting provider.

Hetzner is a German web hosting provider.

Gandi is a French internet services provider owned by Your.Online.

Gmail is the email service provided by Google.

Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority provided by the Internet Security Research Group.

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Brotli is a lossless compression algorithm developed by Google.

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the HTTP network protocol, derived from the QUIC protocol.

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is an experimental network protocol, originally designed by Google and submitted to IETF standardization.

The websites redirects visitors to use SSL encryption, e.g. from http://example.com/ to https://example.com/.

The Open Graph protocol, originally developed by Facebook, is an RDFa-based format that enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph.

Twitter/X Cards enable automatic attachment of photos, videos and media elements to tweets.

JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.

Generic RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) is RDFa without further specialization.

Microdata is a specification to integrate metadata within existing content on web pages.

HTML5 is the fifth revision of the HTML standard.

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless compression image format, suitable to store graphics with uniformly colored areas, and originally introduced as a free, open-source successor of GIF.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

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