nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Phusion Passenger - a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack - is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. Administration tools allow you to gain insight into web application operations and server performance.
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
Rack::Cache is a component to enable HTTP caching for Rack-based applications such as Rails.
Hetzner Online GmbH is an Internet hosting company and data center operator based in Gunzenhausen, Germany. It should not be confused with its South African namesake and partner company, Hetzner Ltd — the two are separate companies registered and incorporated in their own rights under the applicable country laws.
Websites hosted on Hetzner Germany region.
websites using the $ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this currency used in Israel.
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.