Van Patten Media is exists thanks to a number of awesome open source technologies and great online services. In no particular order, here’s a (fairly) comprehensive list.

Hardware

This site–and many of our client sites–are served off a Linode 768 (referral link).

Software

The aforementioned Linode VPS is powered by Ubuntu (10.04 LTS, if you’re particularly interested). We use Apache, suPHP, and MySQL for the full LAMP experience. We’re planning an overhaul in the coming months when Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is made available.

We have a number of security measures in place, but perhaps chief among them is Tripwire. Uptime is monitored with Pingdom.

VanPattenMedia.com

VanPattenMedia.com is powered by WordPress (the latest stable release). We are proud WordPress users.

This theme is built on top of Rach5 (with the rach5-helper plugin), our WordPress theme boilerplate built around DRY development techniques and easy upgradability. CSS is generated by Sass, Compass and an assortment of handy plugins (rgbapng most notably). As of April 2012, we use the Skeleton framework, lightly modified and adapted for our specific needs. All markup is HTML5-compliant, based on current revisions of the in-development spec.

The Signika Negative font is served by Google Web Fonts. We also use the SIL-licensed icon font IconicStroke, available at Font Squirrel.

LABjs loads various JavaScript components, including the ubiquitous jQuery and Formalize.