Infrastructure Planning

Current infrastructure

Details on https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Infrastructure#Current_infrastructure

• off1: frontend + backend for the web site and API
• off2: mongodb + off1 backup
• dev: dev server, robotoff, remote backup

Hardware needs 2020

Production

• Frontend + backend for the web site and API
  • off1

• MongoDB
  • off2

• Robotoff
  • New server
    • Models are memory hungry, at least 32 GB of RAM is needed. Ideally, 64 GB.
    • Ideally, 1 GPU server. Otherwise, high-performance CPU are suitable, 8 cores at least (the more, the better).
    • Disk: speed is only important when loading model from disk, which only occurs at startup. Ideally NVMe, classic SSDs are fine. 500 GB of space should be ok.

• New producer platform
  • New server
    • Little web traffic, lots of image data (sometimes in huge PDFs or png)
    • mid-level cpu and ram, at least 2x4 Tb disks

• New content platform (wiki, blog...) ??
  • New server for different kind of tools (example: Zammad, MediaWiki, Wordpress, Matomo, Rserver?, Nextcloud?)
    • Little web traffic, not much disk needed (except for videos if needed?)
    • mid-level cpu and ram, 2x500 Gb SSD disks probably ok

Backup

• New backup server or cloud storage

Dev

• OFF + producer platform dev
  • New server
    • mid level cpu and ram, at least 2x8 Tb disks