Overview (en)

Here’s an overview of the setup used for https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu, details are on separate pages:

Hardware (VPS)

• CPU ARM64¹, 10 cores
• RAM: 16 GB RAM
• SSD: 1 TB

OS

• Linux
• Distribution: Gentoo unstable (~arm64)

File systems

• btrfs and xfs

Webserver / PHP

• Apache 2.4, mpm: event
• PHP 8.3², fpm

Databases

• MariaDB 11.4: The main database for this hub. The size is about 150 GB³.
• Redis for session storage.

Backup

• Filesystem: btrbk
• MariaDB: mariabackup

Footnotes

1. Probably Ampera Altera, cat /proc/cpuinfo doesn’t yield any details ↩

2. As soon as Gentoo’s package pecl-redis is available for 8.4, 8.4 will be used ↩

3. It’s a large hub. And there’s a way to reduce the file system size for the database ↩