This website has its origins in the early 2000's. This version has been updated to use Python instead of PHP. Instead of running on standalone servers we are using containerization technology to aid in the scalablilty of the site.
Security has been taken into account from early in the design stages. Several significant improvements havw been made such as drastically improving on the password storage method. We are now making use of the Argon2 hash as implemented in https://pypi.org/project/argon2-cffi/