[Expo-tech] Server things followup

[Paul Fox]

Hi

Things I know about the SRCF (to save embarrassment):

* expo would be a society in their parlance
* You need an active personal account to administer a society account
* An active personal account requires an active crsid (i.e. the
ability to authenticate with Raven)
 - The UIS have been known to approve users for "society business"  in
the past, but this is rare
* You won't get a specific version of django via rpm, but you can run
a version of your choosing out of the society home directory
* You can usually get rpms of other stuff installed, otherwise you can
run it out of the home directory
* A 60GB quota is unlikely. The largest I know of is 10GB, which
requires occasional donations. Offering them random disks is unlikely
to help as they do proper backups to tape and so the quotas are based
on the backups being done multiple times over.
* ssh, rsync, http and https all work as standard (and they will point
you at a SSL certificate generator if needed)
* mysql is installed and can be accessed via phymyadmin (behind raven
for resistance to attacks)

Thanks

Paul

On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 03:26, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:
>
> On 2019-05-08 22:41 +0100, R.S. Waszkiewicz wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > In relation to pubtalk. What are the things we want from SRCF ppl. I'm happy to
> > send email forward if we know what we actually want :V
> >
> > @Wook @Sam ?
>
> Sorry for slow response.
>
> The things we need to run on the server are:
> django 1.15 (plus some plugins like registration, graphics - sam do you have the module names?)
> apache 2.4
> mysql (or postgres)
> mercurial and/or git server (preferably gitlab)
> rsync
> bins (photo cataloger)
> survex
> preferably: openlayers,
>
> ports needed are:
> 22:ssh
> 80:http
> preferably also:
> 437:https
> 9418:git (maybe - ssh probably fine instead - does gitlab care?)
> It'd be nice if UDP for mosh worked too.
>
> Space: 80GB. About 60GB of that is 'just files ('expofiles')', 20GB
> for the repositories and core web stuff.
>
> Traffic: extremely low 90% of the time. Busier for ~one month in the
> summer: total bandwidth some tens of GB.
>
> I think that's it although without the server to check configs on I may
> have forgotten something.
>
> One issue is that if the services end up behind raven then it's no use
> at all. And we need admin access for non-university people like me.
>
> I have had an offer of a place to host the server so long as it's a
> container not a VM (so it doesn't take resource when not being
> used). Essentially infinite storage and bandwidth (it's a mirror
> machine: free.hands.com), but possibly slow response times. I suggest
> we try it and see.
>
>
>
> Wookey
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