DelugeRPG pretty much exclusively uses Free and Open Source Software. You could too. Checkout Wikipedia or OSalt to find FOSS alternatives to the commercial software you already use.

This site is coded in PHP,uses MySQL for its database and we use jQuery for our javascript needs.

All our servers run on Ubuntu Linux. We use lighttpd, php-fpm, Percona-Server, HAProxy, and Varnish. We also make use of Memcached and XCache.

For developement, I've used gedit and Geany text editors for all the coding. GIMP was used to make the banners and whatever little original artwork you might find on the site. The maps currently being used were made with Tiled. Variations of the sprites were made using Phatch.

Our Forums uses a slightly optimized version of the phpBB forum software and the DelugeRPG wiki uses MediaWiki. Our Chatrooms at LucidChat use UnrealIRCd servers and SurrealServices

If you've ever wanted to donate to this game, please donate to any of the software above instead. That will help those wonderful people maintain and provide the software free of cost, which inturn helps millions of sites like this.