k18.ch

Server Software

The servers at k18.ch are powered by the following OpenSource software products:

Operating System
FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p6	FreeBSD FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. Additional platforms are in various stages of development.
Web Server
Apache 2.2.11	Apache HTTPD Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. The November 2005 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that more than 70% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.
PHP 5.2.10	PHP 5 PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
PHP Suhosin Patch 0.9.7 Suhosin Extension 0.9.27	Protected by the Suhosin Patch Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.
Python 2.6.2	Python Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.
Perl 5.8.9	Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall, a linguist working as a systems administrator for NASA, in 1987, as a general purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and became widely popular among programmers.
Web Applications
WordPress 2.8.4	WordPress WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
MediaWiki 1.13.5	MediaWiki MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis., including the home of MediaWiki.
Typo3 4.2.6	Typo3 TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
phpMyAdmin 3.2.1	phpMyAdmin A tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 52 languages.
Database Server
MySQL Server & Clients 5.0.84	MySQL Server 5 MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS) which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations.
Mail Server
qmail 1.03 ldap-patch 2006-02-01 simscan 1.40 (customized)	Dan Bernstein’s qmail qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. As of October 2001, qmail is the second most common SMTP server on the Internet, and has by far the fastest growth of any SMTP server. … with the qmail-ldap Patch An add-on to stock qmail-1.03 to get all user account information from an LDAP database. It primary target are mail servers POP toaster with huge numbers of users (from thousands up to millions) which are usually found at ISPs and Enterprises. … and the Simscan mail scanner Simscan is a simple program that enables qmail-smtpd to reject viruses, spam, and block attachments during the SMTP conversation so the email never makes it into your computers. It is completely open source and uses other open source components. Very efficient and written in C.
Spam Filter
SpamAssassin 3.2.5-k18.ch	Apache SpamAssassin Used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules, which also supports DNS-based, checksum-based and statistical filtering, supported by external programs and online databases. SpamAssassin is generally regarded as one of the most effective spam filters, especially when used in combination with spam databases.
Virus Protection
ClamAV 0.95.2	Clam AntiVirus Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The virus database is updated regularly.
IMAP Mail Server
Binc IMAP v1.2.13final	BincIMAP Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. Its goals are to be secure, stable, and fast, yet flexible and easy to maintain. For those familiar with qmail, this IMAP server will be the natural choice. It is invoked similarily and uses the qmail authentication program. Binc IMAP is a Maildir only IMAP server (no traditional mbox support).
Webmail
SquirrelMail 1.4.19	SquirrelMail SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.
Domain Name Servers
djbdns 1.05	Dan Bernstein’s djbdns djbdns is a collection of Domain Name System tools. It includes software for all the fundamental DNS operations. DNS cache: finding addresses of Internet hosts. DNS server: publishing addresses of Internet hosts. djbdns includes a general-purpose DNS server, tinydns; network administrators run tinydns to publish the IP addresses of their computers. djbdns also includes special-purpose servers for publishing DNS walls and RBLs.
Directory Servers
OpenLDAP 2.3.43	OpenLDAP OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Version Control System
svn 1.6.4 (r38063)	Subversion The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.
Project Management
Trac 0.11.4	Trac Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management.
Backup Service
Bacula 3.0.2 (18 July 2009)	Bacula Bacula is a set of computer programs that permit you (or the system administrator) to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds.
Statistics
awstats 6.9 (build 1.925)	Advanced Web Statistics AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools.

RRDtool 1.3.8	Round Robin Database Tools RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python, Ruby, TCL or PHP bindings.

Cacti 0.8.7e	Cacti Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices.
Monitoring
MultiTail 5.2.2	MultiTail MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files in multiple windows on your console. It can filter lines (again with regular expressions). It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software.
Nagios 3.0.6	Nagios Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring application software. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when things go wrong and again when they get better. Nagios, originally created under the name NetSaint, was written and is currently maintained by Ethan Galstad, along with a group of developers actively maintaining both official and unofficial plugins.
SmokePing 2.4.2	SmokePing SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.