What platform is this website using?

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Hey everybody,

I've been building Wordpress sites for a little while but I want to try something different. I recently started buying banner ads and I came across this website.

http://buyads.com

I would like to find out what platform that site is running on because it doesn't look like Wordpress but this is exactly the type of site I want to build. Not the business model but the design.

I went over to BuiltWith: buyads.com Technology Profile and it said something about nginx and ubuntu but I'm not familiar with them. I'd like to build a site that looks like that but curates content from other places so I can possibly flip those sites or build them out and keep them for myself.

Can I do this on my shared hosting with HostGator or do I have to step up to VPS? I'm not familiar with VPS either but I'd be willing to learn.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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  • It's custom - backend is probably running on Rails, php, python or something like it. Nginx & unbuntu are the server architecture/caching/web server software the site is running on. Fairly common.

    A site like that I would say "no" to running on shared hosting as it most likely is very sql intensive. These sites are more advanced & more complex than the typical Wordpress setup.
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    • Great. Thanks for getting back to me. Not sure if I'm ready for anything quite like that yet.

      Would you happen to know of anything that I can use design-wise to achieve something similar on Wordpress with the shared plan I'm currently on?

      The design is really what caught my eye and if I can get something like this with Wordpress that would be great because I'm already familiar with the backend whereas it would be like me learning to walk all over again trying to tackle this the way they have it setup.
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