Technology

Foobooz.com is hosted by DreamHost, an employee owned web hosting company.

Foobooz.com runs on the WordPress publishing platform.

Foobooz relies on a number of Plugins created by the WordPress community. Without these developers many of the coolest features you use every time you visit Foobooz would not be possible.

• Akismet - Comment spam blocking
• Search Meter - Keeps track of what visitors are searching for.
• Side Bar Widgets - Side Bar Widgets make it simple to add and manage sidebar content.
• Subscribe Me - Adds links to make it simple to add RSS feeds to favorite readers.
• Ultimate Tag Warrior - Heavy duty tagging plugin.
• WP-Cache - Caching plugin makes it easy to render content on the fly yet not bring down the server.
• WP-Polls - Adds polls to the Foobooz site and sidebar.
• WPCandy - Inserts code into pre-defined location, used to put ads after the second post.

Ads are served up by OpenAds, an open-source ad server.

Foobooz.com statistics are served up by Google Analytics.