IT infrastructure

BEST online services are supported by a network of servers distributed across Europe. Thanks to the help of the Local BEST Groups and the universities that host and provide the Internet access, BEST can be online for the whole world.

Moreover, BEST members use everyday the internal services designed to improve the communication and productivity of the organization in their daily activities.

Application servers

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  Ljubljana (web application server)
  Hosted by the Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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  Brussels (web application server)
  Hosted by Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium
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  Lisbon (development server)
  Hosted by Lisbon Institute of Technology (School of Engineering, IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), Portugal
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  Tallinn (FTP & backup servers)
  Hosted by the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
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  Ghent (IRC server)
  The server was donated by Ghent University, Belgium
  Hosted by the Local BEST Group Ghent
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  Vienna (monitoring server)
  The server was donated by Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  Hosted by the Local BEST Group Vienna

Mail servers

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  Tallinn
  Hosted by the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
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  Krakow
  Hosted by the AGH-UST - University of Science and Technology, Poland
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  Skopje
  Hosted by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Macedonia
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  Vienna
  Donated and hosted by the Local BEST Group Vienna

Technologies used

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  Debian
  All our servers are running on Debian GNU/Linux
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  Apache Tomcat
  Web pages are served through Apache Tomcat
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  Makumba
  All web applications are developed using the Makumba framework