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--- title: "About the FreeBSD Web Server" sidenav: docs --- include::shared/en/urls.adoc[] = About the FreeBSD Web 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: * Cloud and SDN Laboratory at https://www.bbtower.co.jp/en/corporate/[BroadBand Tower, Inc] * https://www.cs.nycu.edu.tw/[Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University] * 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/english/[KDDI Web Communications Inc] * https://www.mohe.gov.my/en/services/research/myren[Malaysian Research & Education Network] * https://www.metapeer.com/[MetaPeer] * https://www.nyi.net/[New York Internet] * https://nic.br/[NIC.br] * https://www.teleservice.net/[Teleservice Skåne AB] * https://your.org/[Your.Org] * https://www.sonic.com/[Sonic.net, LLC] -- 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. == The Pages [.right] image:../../gifs/lynx.gif[Lynx Friendly logo] The original web pages were put together by John Fieber <[email protected]> with input from the FreeBSD community and *you*. https://wolfram.schneider.org[Wolfram Schneider] was our first webmaster but this responsibility is now shared by a larger team of web and documentation contributors. 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: [.tblbasic] [cols=",",options="header",] |=== |Build Time (UTC) |Build type |Every 10 minutes |If there is a change in the https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/log/[doc repository] |=== 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]