Digital Infrastructure » History » Version 32
Francois Soulard, 08/06/2024 07:12 PM
| 1 | 8 | Francois Soulard | # Digital Infrastructure of the YOU(th) CARE initiative |
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| 3 | 32 | Francois Soulard | * A **dedicated server** has been deployed from scratch to host the main services around the e-learning platform. |
| 4 | 18 | Francois Soulard | It is hosted in a Hetzner datacenter located in Germany https://www.hetzner.com and managed by Traversées. |
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| 6 | 26 | Francois Soulard | * **Hardware profile** : EX130-S model, featuring a Intel Xeon Gold 5412U (RAM 256Gb, 24 cores) with two disks of 3.84TB NVMe SSD (IPv4 162.55.20.209). https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex130-s/configurator/#/ |
| 7 | 27 | Francois Soulard | If needed, a larger disk can be added on demand later. The same for memory capacities. The current hosting cost is about 170 EUR/month. |
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| 9 | 9 | Francois Soulard | * **Server configuration** : |
| 10 | 12 | Francois Soulard | > * Operating sytem: Debian 12 |
| 11 | > * ProxMox Virtual Environment (PVE 8.2) |
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| 12 | > * Disk geometry: RAID 1 with 2 common partition: /boot (ext3) and /boot/efi (esp); one partition with LVM with a unique Volume Group (vg0). The logical volumes within vg0 are root, swap and data. |
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| 14 | 16 | Francois Soulard | * **DNS registers** |
| 15 | > * The main DNS registers of youth-care.eu are managed by the YC team (Giulia Pugnana) |
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| 16 | 13 | Francois Soulard | > * The following domains have been created (beginning of August 2024): |
| 17 | 12 | Francois Soulard | > > * community.youth-care.eu > campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in production mode) |
| 18 | > > * dev.campus.youth-care.eu > dev.campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in development mode) |
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| 19 | 21 | Francois Soulard | > > * meet.youth-care.eu > bbb-yc.rio20.net (Big Blue Blutton) https://meet.youth-care.eu |
| 20 | 12 | Francois Soulard | > > * video.youth-care.eu > peertube-yc.rio20.net (Peertube) |
| 21 | 22 | Francois Soulard | > > * kb.youth-care.eu > knowledge-base-yc.rio20.net (Redmine) https://kb.youth-care.eu |
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| 24 | 1 | Francois Soulard | * **Security** |
| 25 | 19 | Francois Soulard | > * PVE firewall and Fail2ban have been installed in the main PVE environment. |
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| 27 | * **Backups** |
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| 28 | 24 | Francois Soulard | > * Each services (virtual servers) will be backed up daily and weekly to the Cloud Storage of Hetzner. |
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| 31 | 27 | Francois Soulard | * **Stack of services** (virtualized in the main host) |
| 32 | 31 | Francois Soulard | > * Redmine (ticketing and knowledge base) https://kb.youth-care.eu |
| 33 | 30 | Francois Soulard | > * Moodle and Iomad (Iomad is an extension of Moodle for a multi-entities configuration) |
| 34 | 31 | Francois Soulard | > * Big Blue Button (advanced videoconferencing) https://meet.youth-care.eu |
| 35 | 5 | Francois Soulard | > * Peertube (streaming and video on demand) |
| 36 | 16 | Francois Soulard | > * Zabbix (server monitoring) (hosted in another Traversees server) |
| 37 | 5 | Francois Soulard | > * Matrix/Discourse (messaging) |
| 38 | 17 | Francois Soulard | > * Jitsi (videoconferencing) |
| 39 | 16 | Francois Soulard | > * Matomo (web statistics) (hosted in another Traversees server) |
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| 41 | All this stack, from server to web applications, is based on free and open source software. |
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| 44 | * **Third-party services** |
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| 45 | > * Gladia (AI live captions for Big Blue Button): an account has been created to test the automatic live captions during videoconferencing. |
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| 46 | 30 | Francois Soulard | > * Edwiser: The RemUI template https://edwiser.org/remui-moodle-theme/ for Moodle has been bought in its "Bundle" extended, as suggested in the original tender and confirmed by the YC coordination team. |