--- title: "About the FreeBSD WWW Server" sidenav: docs --- include::shared/en/urls.adoc[] = About the FreeBSD WWW Server == The Machine [.right] 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.isc.org/[Internet Systems Consortium], https://www.cs.nctu.edu.tw/cswebsite/[National Chiao Tung University], https://www.nyi.net/[New York Internet], https://www.rootbsd.net//[RootBSD], https://www.yandex.com/[Yandex], https://www.yahoo.com/[Yahoo!], 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]. In addition, there are a few locally crafted CGI scripts. Indexing of the mailing list archive are provided by freewais-sf, a derivative of the CNIDR freewais. == The Pages [.right] image:../../gifs/lynx.gif[Lynx Friendly logo] The original web pages were put together by John Fieber https://people.FreeBSD.org/~jfieber/[] with input from the FreeBSD community and *you*. http://wolfram.schneider.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. == link:{fdp-primer}#the-website-build[Building and updating the FreeBSD Web Pages] This document describes how to build and update the FreeBSD Web pages from the Subversion repository by hand. == Update of the FreeBSD Web Pages The FreeBSD Web Pages on `www.FreeBSD.org` are currently rebuilt according to the following schedule: [.tblbasic] [cols=",",options="header",] |=== |Build Time (UTC) |Build type |Every 10 minutes |English www only, if no other build is running |Every Sunday at 00:00 |Full build with a new tree checkout |Every 1 hour |English only |Every 3 hours |Full build |=== == Mirroring the FreeBSD Web Pages It is possible to link:../mirror[mirror] the FreeBSD web pages on www.FreeBSD.org. link:..[FreeBSD Internal Home]