#“The web tools we can’t live without in LouderVoice”
It took it quite a long time to put together a "web toolkit" that works well for our business. To save you some of the same hassle, here are the some of important things our site/applications/OpsTeam use:
- Amazon AWS including EC2, S3, EBS and EIP - It's not about hosting cost, it's about enterprise features like snapshots
- Rightscale - For some AWS management
- Ubuntu Linux - Our server OS and also used on some development machines
- Django - Our apps and API are all built using this framework
- Python - The language Django is written in
- Wordpress - All blogs and the business information site (plus approx 30 plugins)
- NGINX - Front-end web-server and load balancer
- Apache - Using mod_wsgi for apps and mod_php for Wordpress
- MySQL - Our DB server
- JQuery - For building a big chunk of our Widget
- Solr - Search Engine functionality
- Putty - To access our EC2 instances
- AuthSMTP - For sending email from EC2
- DNSMadeEasy - 100% uptime DNS provider
- Akismet - For anti-spam
- Memcache - For API performance
- Komodo - Great cross-platform code editor that can edit files using SFTP on your EC2 servers
- Eclipse - For building our Android application
- Jungledisk - Extra backup to S3
- Dropbox - File sharing
- Gravity Forms - For Forms
- PayPal - For getting paid :-)
- Zoho CRM - Customer Contact Management
- Chrome - For non-Firefox browsing
- Internet Explorer 7/8 - For test only
- Yuuguu - For conference call desktop sharing to potential customers/partners
- Pidgin - IM
- Google Apps - For all our e-mail, calendar, GTalk and Goog Docs
- Google Docs - Docs and Spreadsheets great, Sites Wiki poor
- Remember The Milk - All of our To-Dos
- Inkscape - Vector images on site
- Gimp - Bitmap images on site
- Filezilla - FTP/SFTP
- Git - hateful source control
- Unfuddle - Problem tickets, Git source control, Dev Notes
- Firefox - To run
- Elasticfox
- Firebug
- YSlow
- Poster
- S3Fox
- ColorZilla
- MeasureIt
- Live HTTP Headers
- Screengrab
- Web Developer Toolbar
More as I think of them since I'm sure I've forgotten something important. What can't you live without?