Hi guys,

I'm still evaluating how to deploy an ALA instance for Belgium at the end of this year and was interested in hearing your first hands experience about the infrastructure you run the portal on.

I'm especially interested about the experience of countries like France and Spain that did it recently and who have a volume of data of the same order of magnitude as Belgium.

The documentation (https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation/wiki/Essential-tools-and-environmental-requirements) recommends the following server configuration:

- 100Gb SSD
- 32GB RAM
- 2x CPU

My questions are:

Were those requirements sufficient for you?
Did you deploy everything on a single server or did you use a more splitted infrastructure? If so, did you wrote your own ansible scripts to match your configuration?
Did you use physical servers? Or Amazon EC2 instances ? Or another cloud providers?
Is there anything you'd do differently if you had to do it again tomorrow?
Any other comments or remark?

Thanks a lot for your collaboration!

Nicolas