Credits

Hosting Services

Digital Ocean: Digital Ocean provides a simpler, cleaner, cheaper alternative to AWS. Nostroma has its main webservers on Digital Ocean.

WebCentral: Nostroma uses WebCentral to register and manage domain names.

DNSMadeSimple: DNS Made Simple provides a reliable low-cost DNS service for the Nostroma domain name.

Payment Services

FastSpring: FastSpring acts as a "Merchant Of Record", taking care of taxes and regulations.

PayPal: PayPal provides a way that customers can pay you without their having to trust you with their credit card. It's simple and works.

Webserver Hosting Software

Rocky Linux: Rocky Linux (formerly CentOS) is one of the most reliable versions of Linux and all the Nostroma servers run on it.

MySQL: MYSQL is a clean, reliable, open source mainstream database software.

Apache: Apache is one of the world's main web servers. It is fast, and makes connecting a web server written in Go easy.

LetsEncrypt: LetsEncrypt revolutionised the web by providing free SSL certificates in an era when you might pay US$100/year for them. It's great.

Stunnel: Stunnel is used in the Nostroma cloud to securely connect the webserver node to the database node.

Webserver Languages

bash: bash is a great Linux shell language for general purpose server management scripting.

Puppet: Puppet is used to configure the Nostroma servers.

Go: The Nostroma website is entirely written in the Go programming language. Go is like C++ except without classes and has memory and type safety.

Webserver Frameworks

? Framework: The Nostroma website is built on an unreleased web framework written in Go by Ross Williams.

SQLX: SQLX is a Go package for connecting to databases. It's simple and it works.

Font Awesome: Font Awesome is a free (or paid) package of simple clean icons.

Foundation: Foundation is a CSS front-end web framework that provides great flexibility.

Webserver Software Development Tools On MacOS

SequelAce: SequelAce is a MacOS app that allows you to browse a remote database such as MySQL. It has been an essential tool in building the Nostroma website.

Tower Git: Tower Git is a MacOS app that is Git client. I've tried several Git clients, and I think this one is the best.

BBEdit: BBEdit is an excellent text editor.

Transmit: Transmit is a MacOS app that used to FTP files to and from the Nostroma servers.

NoteTaker: NoteTaker is a MacOS app that provides a notebook of sections, each of which has pages, each of which has a list of hierarchical trees.

Filemaker: Filemaker is a MacOS app that allows you to create GUI databases in minutes.

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