White House Blog
Opening page as of January 2018
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Government |
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| Available in | English, Spanish (Formerly) |
| Owner | Federal government of the United States |
| Website | whitehouse |
| Alexa rank |
 2,167 (March 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | October 20, 1994 |
| Current status | Active |
whitehouse.gov is the official website of the White House and is owned by the United States government. Launched in October 1994, it contains information about the President, the Vice President, their families, press releases, proclamations, executive orders, and some speeches by White House officials. It has the official web sites of several offices in the Executive Office of the President, such as the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The website has been completely redesigned for each new president. Websites for former presidents in office are moved to archive versions. As of 2011, the website is considered among the best of the United States federal government.
The content of the website is in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license.
The current administration's website is broken into the following sections:
In July 2001, the White House started switching their web servers to an operating system based on Red Hat Linux and using the Apache HTTP Server. The installation was completed in February 2009. In October 2009, the White House servers adopted Drupal, a free and open-source content management system, which runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux On December 15, 2017, the website was relaunched using the WordPress content management system.
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