Fedena is a web 2.0 application. Fedena can be installed in a web server. Fedena's architecture doesn’t support it to be installed as a standalone application.
Installation prerequisite:- Your server should provide SSH access with public IP for Foradian engineers to install the product.
Basic Server Requirements to host Fedena
The server requirement depends on a lot of factors. You might be thinking that the number of students & teachers in the database is the key factor. But actually not. The number of concurrent users is the key here. Suppose School A has 300 students and School B has 1000 students. If 100 students of School A and 20 students of School B use Fedena at the same time, School A will need better server resources than School B.
The basic server requirement is as follows
At least 200GB of space other than root (/) server
8GB of Ram, CentOS 7 / Ubuntu 16.04
8 Core, 64bit processor(x86_64) (With the exception of Atom processor)
Note :No of cores/number of nginx worker process * 512 ( default worker connection)= No. of users can be handled concurrently. This is defined in the Nginx (Web Server) configuration file
Recommended Server Requirement to host Fedena
Database Server
Memory - 8GB
CPU - 4 core - >= 2.3Ghz each
Disk space - More than 1 TB (Database Storage)
Application Server
Memory - 8 GB
CPU - 8 core - >= 2.3Ghz each
Disk Space - 1 TB (Fedena source code, log files)
File Storage
This is needed for storing photos and documents that are uploaded through Fedena. It is better to store files on a separate storage server rather in application server so that it will ease the process of load balancing. Amazon S3 can be used for this for high availability.
You can start with the basic and with the help of a good server admin guy, you can scale up the system according to the usage. If you are worried or tired about server setup and maintenance, switch to our hosted plans.
Other Important Points to keep in mind before selecting setting up an environment to install Fedena.
If you are planning to host Fedena in your servers, Fedena support team will help you to install the application only in the recommended servers.
Please refrain from Restarting your servers frequently to avert major issues like database conflicts and the like. We always suggest to go through the normal protocols of switching off MYSQL, Nginx etc.
Fedena cannot be installed on the shared server. If installed in a shared server, there is a high probability that the application may crash any time since it's a heavy application. Foradian doesn't recommend the shared server for Fedena hosting.
You need to have thorough server knowledge if you are hosting on your own server. Fedena team will be installing the application only. All other server related operations need to be taken care from your side like backup, server log files, redundancy, folder permissions etc.
If application is hosted on your server, Foradian will support you only if the source code is not altered and the Database is not fudged.
Fedena is a product and separate feature requests are not encouraged. Only feature requests which are taken to the roadmap of the product will be included in the product. Clients can raise their feature requests in our Feature request Forum and if a lot of clients support this, we will be taking this to the product roadmap.
If Fedena is not hosted with Foradian, while raising a support ticket, you should give the details of the bug with the screenshots if applicable and should give the ssh root login access so that we can check the issue.
Please note: You can use (access) Fedena in any OS of your choice including Windows, Linux, Mac or smartphones as Fedena is a Web based application which works in a browser.
IMPORTANT !!!
Conditions for delivering source code to enterprise customers and partners.
You should satisfy all 8 conditions given below. You will have to digitally sign to accept the following conditions.
You have access to a qualified server administrator. You should either have a certified server technician in your team or a third party company which will take care of Server related actions (checking server log files, hard disk space, folder permissions, backup, redundancy)
You or one of your team member must know how to configure a fresh server, install operating system on the server, configure IPs and setup public access
You have a server with Operating System which supports Fedena Installation (Supported OS are CentOS 7 , Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
You must know how to take database backup and restore the database in case of server crash
You must know how to scale up the server in case of increase in concurrent users
You won't edit the source code of Fedena
You won't edit the database of a live Fedena directly
Incase of failure of above points, you can't contact fedena official support team to own the responsibility of the problem or challenge
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