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Owlkins combines several open source and cloud pieces into a web service with a focus on security and speed.

The Python-based web framework Django brings maturity and security to the table with opinionated design in all the right areas.

A familiar front-end that we've all seen before, the Twitter Bootstrap frontend will allow users to feel right at home.

Combine AWS S3 and CloudFront to serve your photos and videos fast and securely with signed cookies and urls.

Django integrates with PostgreSQL to store all of your data on your own server.

Use AWS SES or another SMTP relay to make sure your emails skip the junk box.

Run on your own hardware, either a VM at home or one you rent from the cloud.

Additional parts of Owlkins

Honourable mention

Systemd timers: Used to send daily emails
Memcached: Helps out parts of the Django backend
Nginx: The web server itself
Gunicorn: "WSGI" nm, hbu? "Connecting Nginx to Django workers".
FFmpeg: Converts those "MOV" files to something everyone else can understand.
Vault: Optionally store your secrets in HashiCorp Vault instead of a file on disk.
Sentry: Optionally send errors to our Sentry endpoint to help find and remediate bugs!
Photoswipe: A great JS library for viewing photos.