Cerberus, Aula Virtual, Biblioteca, Bolsa de empleo; VPS 2: Micrositio y revista científica
de investigación. VPS 3: Practicas de estudiantes. Con los VPS recibidos se procede a la
instalación y configuración de los mismos mediante el uso de varias herramientas de software
libre como sistema operativo Alma Linux 8, CyberPanel como software de administración
gráfica, OpenLiteSpeed como servidor web, PHP como lenguaje de programación, MariaDB
como gestor de base de datos, Sophos Connect para conexión privada, PuTTY como gestor
de conexiones remotas; finalmente se procedió a la migración de las aplicaciones
institucionales al nuevo entorno.
Palabras claves: VPS, aplicaciones web, software libre, configuración, migración,
Abstract
The Instituto Superior Tecnológico Vicente León currently has applications such as virtual
classroom (Moodle), institutional academic system (Cerberus), employment exchange, and
Victec magazine. For the operation of these applications, a VPS server has been used with
the company DDos, where it has worked with limitations that suppose the fact of having the
recurrence of users in search of institutional services. With the passing of the years and the
increase of the institutional processes, the applications grow and need an increasingly larger
space that allows them to be stored correctly: Therefore, a series of configurations have been
made that have allowed the proper operation of the applications. Due to the economic
situation of the institution, it is difficult to maintain a paid VPS service, so through
negotiations with SENESCYT, VPS servers have been provided to host the applications that
are distributed: VPS 1: Cerberus Academic System, Virtual Classroom, Library, Job Board;
VPS 2: Microsite and scientific research journal. VPS 3: Student internships. With the VPS
received were installed and configured using several free software tools such as Alma Linux
8 operating system, CyberPanel as graphic administration software, OpenLiteSpeed as a web
server, PHP as a programming language, MariaDB as database manager, Sophos Connect for
private connection, PuTTY as remote connection manager. Finally, the institutional
applications were migrated to the new environment.