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Subject: eRegulations

DocType: System hosting requirements

Managed by : eRegulations team

Created on : 19 April 2013

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TableofContents

1.OVERVIEW 32.SERVER-SIDEREQUIREMENTS 43.SECURITYREQUIREMENTS 44.HARDWAREANDDISKSPACEREQUIREMENTS 53.1.ONESERVER-MINIMUMREQUIREMENTS 53.2.ONESERVER-OPTIMALREQUIREMENTS 53.3.DISTRIBUTEDARCHITECTURE-OPTIMALREQUIREMENTS 6

5.BANDWIDTH&TRANSFERLIMITS 7

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1.OverviewThe eRegulations system is based on several interconnected applications being responsible

for assuring data entry activities, pre-processing the information and presenting it to theinternet user.

The main eRegulations applications / components are listed below:

AdminWebApp - application runs on Windows Server, .NET Framework, InternetInformation Services (IIS) and SQL Server.

Public WebApp - application runs on Windows Server, .NET Framework, InternetInformation Services (IIS) and SQL Server.

API Server - application runs on both Windows Server with Internet InformationServices (IIS) or OSX/*nix Server

CRAlerts CLI - application runs on Windows Server and SQL Server Statistics CLI- application runs on Windows Server and SQL Server

All the eRegulations applications can be executed inside one Windows Server environment or

in a distributed manner environment with each application server connecting to a central SQL

server database. This allows flexibility to deploy the web/application server and SQL server

on the same or on separate machines, and in larger installations it allows multipleweb/application servers to be configured in a load balanced configuration for high

availability.

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2.Server-sideRequirements

Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, Windows Vista HomePremium/Business/Enterprise/Ultimate or Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit) or Windows

8 (both 32bit and 64bit)

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or higher Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0, 7.5, 8.0 or Visual Studio/Visual Web

Developer 2008/2010/2012 built-in web server

Node.js version 0.8 or higher Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 (including free SQL Server Express

Edition)

MongoDB version 2.0 or higher

3.SecurityRequirements

The security strategy is based on the following pillars: securing the server and securing the

data.

Assuring a high security of the server involves two actions:

enabling the firewall service on the Windows Server to control both inbound andoutbound traffic (it comes with predefined rules)

installing an anti-virus software of choice (suggestion: Kaspersky)

The security of data is resolved by backing up regularly all the data used by the

eRegulations systems. Here you can use

set-up a sql data back-up tool (suggestion http://sqlbackupandftp.com/) to producedaily back-ups of eRegulations Database

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4.HardwareandDiskspaceRequirements

3.1.Oneserver-minimumrequirements

The minimum hardware requirements assumes one physical or virtual server that will hostsall the applications.

Processor 2GHz

Memory(RAM) 4GBrecommended

HardDisk 100GB

HardDiskSpeed 10000rpm

Note: The hard disk space required for all the eRegulations applications files are:

-Installationfiles-100MB

-Mediafiles(uploadeddocuments,images)-1GB

-Databasefiles-5GB

3.2.Oneserver-optimalrequirements

Processor2xQuadCoreIntelXeonProcessors

E5520@2.27Ghz

Memory(RAM) 16GB

HardDisk 2x1TBdisk

HardDiskSpeed 15000rpm

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3.3.Distributedarchitecture-optimalrequirements

SQL Server Database Server

Processor

QuadCoreIntelXeon

ProcessorE5520@2.27Ghz

Memory(RAM) 8GB

HardDisk 2x1TBdisk

HardDiskSpeed 15000rpm

Windows Web Server

ProcessorQuadCoreIntelXeon

Processor

E5520@2.27Ghz

Memory(RAM) 16GB

HardDisk 2x1TBdisk

HardDiskSpeed 15000rpm

API Server

Processor

QuadCoreIntelXeon

Processor

E5520@2.27Ghz

Memory(RAM) 8GB

HardDisk 2x1TBdisk

HardDiskSpeed 15000rpm

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5.Bandwidth&Transferlimits

Bandwidth will determine how fast something loads on the eRegulations site. HTML pages,

Images, videos, will all load quickly with the right amount of bandwidth.

The minimum recommended bandwidth is 3Mbps

Transfer volume, measured now in GB (gigabytes) per month is a calculated value based on

the number of users accessing the site. It should not be less than 10 GB in order to assure an

average 700 users visiting daily the eRegulations system.