Architecture & Deployment

This page describes the 3DM Cloud architecture.
For documentation on the DNS Records, see Storage Nodes & DNS Records.

About the 3DM Cloud Portal:

• Runs on Azure
• Azure datacenter location: West Europe
• Single VM with Ubuntu Linux 20.04.2 (LTS)
• Database: Azure managed MySQL (8.0.15)
• API: PHP 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.19
• Website: Apache 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.14
• Wordpress: version 5.7.1

About the 3D Cloud Storage:

• Runs on Azure and Amazon, at different datacenters across the world
• Azure datacenter locations: Australia,East US,North Europe,South Central US,West Europe,West US
• Amazon datacenter locations: Singapore
• Single VM per datacenter, with Flatcar container Linux (auto-updating, security focus)
• Single Docker container based on Java 11 (LTS) Alpine Linux (trimmed down attack surface)
• Only TLS 1.2 and later, no older technologies like SSL
• HTTPS only, no insecure HTTP
• Secure Websockets (WSS) on top of HTTPS for better streaming performance
• No direct access to the backend blob storage account, all access is through the service