Design and IT Infrastructure of the YC project

# Digital Infrastructure of the YOU(th) CARE initiative

* A **dedicated server** has been deployed to host the main services around the e-learning platform.

It is hosted in a Hetzner datacenter located in Germany. https://www.hetzner.com.

* **Hardware profile** : EX130-S model featuring a Intel Xeon Gold 5412U (RAM 256Gb, 24 cores) with two disks 3.84TB NVMe SSD (IPv4 162.55.20.209).

If needed, a larger disk can be added on demand later. The same for memory capacities.

* **Server configuration** : 

> * Operating sytem: Debian 12

> * ProxMox Virtual Environment (PVE 8.2)

> * 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. 

* **DNS registries**

* The main DNS registries youth-care.eu are managed by the YC team (Giulia Pugnana) 

* The following domains have been created:

> * community.youth-care.eu > campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in production mode)

> * dev.campus.youth-care.eu > dev.campus-yc.rio20.net (Moodle/Iomad in development mode)

> * meet.youth-care.eu > bbb-yc.rio20.net (Big Blue Blutton)

> * video.youth-care.eu > peertube-yc.rio20.net (Peertube)

> * kb.youth-care.eu > knowledge-base-yc.rio20.net (Redmine)

* **Security**

* **Backups**

* **Stack of services**

> * Redmine (ticketing and knowledge base) 

> * Moodle and Iomad (multi-entities learning platform)

> * Big Blue Button (videoconferencing)

> * Peertube (streaming and video on demand)

> * Zabbix (server monitoring)

> * Matrix/Discourse (messaging)

> * Jitsi

> * Matomo (web statistics)