Four rules we hold ourselves to.
Included in the contractYour data stays in France
Hosting with OVH (Roubaix, Gravelines) — no transfer outside the EU, unless you specifically request it. We can also host your data in Beauharnois, Canada (a French-speaking base in the Americas) or in Morocco (for Africa), always on OVH infrastructure.
Managed hosting is included
System updates (Debian stable), CollectiveAccess updates, supervision and incident response — everything is included in the annual contract. You pay for hosting; we keep the machine alive.
Daily backups
SQL dump every night plus incremental rsync of media to a second remote server. Custom files (configuration, Pawtucket theme, code) are backed up separately. A Git repository lets us recover the exact deployed version at any time.
Security by default
Apache evasive (anti-DOS) and security (WAF) modules configured to your needs, software firewall, SSH access by secure key only — restrictable to our IP alone. HTTPS everywhere, regular audits.
From the small database to national collections.
+ storage optionVPS — starter
To get started or to test, a small database with fewer than 500 objects, or a demo environment.
VPS — small database
Small to medium collection, museum or archive project at start-up stage.
Dedicated — medium collection
Collection of a few thousand objects with HD media, several simultaneous users.
Dedicated NVMe — performance
Large collection, intensive research, heavy indexing — search performance up to 5× faster thanks to NVMe.
Dedicated — large collections
Major national collections, heavy heritage data volumes, HD/RAW media. 2×2 TB hard disk in RAID 1 with full redundancy.
A proven architecture, documented.
Technical detailOperating system
- → Debian 11/12 « bookworm »
- → Migration to stable on release
- → Old-stable maintained on client request
Web
- → Apache 2.4
- → evasive + security modules (WAF)
- → PHP 7.3+ with full extensions
Database
- → MariaDB 10.2.x minimum
- → max_allowed_packet = 256M
- → Daily SQL dump
Storage
- → Dedicated /var partition
- → RAID 1 / RAID Soft
- → NVMe on request (×4 SSD performance)
Security
- → SSH access by key only
- → Optional IP restriction
- → Active software firewall
Backup
- → Daily database + media backup
- → Rsync to remote server
- → Custom files backed up separately
Tell us about your collection, we'll suggest the right tier.
Les autres métiers d'idéesculture.
El servicio telefónico en Madrid, Interior de la estación central
Madrid's central telephone exchange in the late 19th century — one of the first large-scale switching centres, operated by hand, wires routed one by one. More than a century later, the infrastructure has changed in scale and materiality, but the promise remains the same: routing messages from one point to another, reliably, over long distance.
Engraving by Bernardo Rico after a drawing by Manuel Alcázar y Ruiz — Public domain · Wikimedia Commons