[arm-allstar] Hosting a Hub and Web Control

[Billy Irwin]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks so much! You nailed exactly what I want to do! Now to begin the work!

Thanks and 73,

Billy L. Irwin - K9OH

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From: ARM-allstar <arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org> On Behalf Of Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2023 10:26 PM
To: ARM Allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
Cc: Patrick Perdue <borrisinabox at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Hosting a Hub and Web Control

Billy:

If you aren't planning to host a huge number of connections, ASL 1.01 or
2.0 beta 6 running on Debian will do. You can host that anywhere.

I've heard people say that Vultr works great, and others say the timing is terrible. Maybe it depends on what data center you use. I've had pretty good luck using Linode in most data centers, except for Atlanta, Toronto, and, for a while, Newark, but Newark hasn't been bad in a while.

There are a couple of places that will host Raspberry Pi's in a data center. One is Lightwave Networks, which has two data centers, one in Plano, TX, and the other near Boston, MA. There is another one in the Dallas area as well, but I forgot the name of it.

Either way, it's slightly more expensive than running a low-end Linode Nanode or the bottom tear Digital Ocean droplet.

I have one of my systems in the Plano data center running HamVoIP on a Pi 4, and it's rock solid.

That being said, I also have a few ASL nodes in various parts of the world, which I would like to eventually replace with HamVoIP somehow. It may be technically possible, though probably not a great idea to run HamVoIP on a qemu instance emulating a Raspberry Pi. I don't imagine timing would be too good with that setup, though. dahdi_test looks pretty good on my  Linode VPS in Newark, NJ running ASL 1.01.

--- Results after 89 passes ---
Best: 100.000% -- Worst: 99.947% -- Average: 99.991804% Cumulative Accuracy (not per pass): 99.993

To compare, here is one of my HamVoIP systems.

--- Results after 58 passes ---
Best: 100.000% -- Worst: 99.968% -- Average: 99.993140% Cummulative Accuracy (not per pass): 99.993

Aside from cumulative being misspelled in the HamVoIP version, the average is a little better, but not by all that much. This also being said, the VPS I ran that test on is hardly loaded, whereas that HamVoIP system has quite a number of connections on it, so this isn't necessarily a fair test.

You can run Supermon anywhere as long as the web server has access to the manager ports of Asterisk systems you want to monitor. If you are planning on connecting the repeaters back to the hub via a VPN, this will make your life easier, as you can expose the manager ports just to the VPN interface and not to the wider internet. If coming in from the outside, firewall the heck out of that port so not just any IP can access it, since everything is sent in plain text.

If possible, I would recommend running Supermon on a system that isn't actually hosting any of your nodes. This is how my system is configured, and it works well for us.

HTH.

73

N2DYI


On 6/17/2023 9:29 PM, Billy Irwin via ARM-allstar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a couple of questions for the following scenario.
>
>
>    1.  We would like to have 2 hubs in a data center environment. Currently there is no way to have a PI there. What would be the best option for this?
>    2.  Could Supermon2 run on a server running PHP without a node being on it so we can control all of our nodes with one web portal?
> The idea is that all of our repeaters are on a VPN with Microwave. Only the web portal will have access into the VPN to control said nodes. The 2 hubs mentioned above will be how these machines talk to external allstar nodes.
>
> Thanks and 73,
>
> Billy - K9OH
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