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Francois Soulard, 08/06/2024 09:30 PM

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# Digital Infrastructure of the YOU(th) CARE initiative
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* A **dedicated server** has been deployed from scratch to host the main services around the e-learning platform.
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It is hosted in a Hetzner datacenter located in Germany https://www.hetzner.com and managed by Traversées.
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* **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/#/
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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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* **Server configuration** : 
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  * Operating sytem: Debian 12
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  * ProxMox Virtual Environment (PVE 8.2)
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  * 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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* **DNS registers**
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  * The main DNS registers of youth-care.eu are managed by the YC team (Giulia Pugnana) 
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  * The following domains have been created (beginning of August 2024):
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    * community.youth-care.eu > campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in production mode)
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    * dev.campus.youth-care.eu > dev.campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in development mode)
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    * meet.youth-care.eu > bbb-yc.rio20.net (Big Blue Blutton) https://meet.youth-care.eu
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    * video.youth-care.eu > peertube-yc.rio20.net (Peertube)
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    * kb.youth-care.eu > knowledge-base-yc.rio20.net (Redmine) https://kb.youth-care.eu
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* **Security**
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  * PVE firewall and Fail2ban (shield for intrusions and attacks) have been installed in the main PVE environment.
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* **Backups**
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  * Each services (virtual servers) will be backed up daily and weekly to the Cloud Storage of Hetzner according to a differenciated backup policy (to be defined later). 
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* **Stack of services** (virtualized in the main host) 
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  * Redmine (ticketing and knowledge base) https://kb.youth-care.eu 
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  * Moodle and Iomad (Iomad is an extension of Moodle for a multi-entities configuration)
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  * Big Blue Button (advanced videoconferencing) https://meet.youth-care.eu
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  * Peertube (streaming and video on demand)
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  * Zabbix (server monitoring) (hosted in another Traversées server)
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  * Matrix/Discourse (messaging)
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  * Jitsi (videoconferencing)
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  * Matomo (web statistics) (hosted in another Traversées server) 
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All this stack, from the host server to web applications, is based on free and open source software. 
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* **Third-party services or software**
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  * 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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  * 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.