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Erdee Media Groep

Erdee Media Group (EMG) has been a leading media company since the 1970s. Based on its mission, EMG provides responsible news and information for Christians and non-Christians in a committed and innovative way. It stimulates discussion with society and interaction between different parts of the target group. It also provides a platform for opinion-forming, in which it likes to play a guiding role.

For a company that wants to spread the world’s latest news 24/6 and keep readers up to date with the latest developments in society, it is essential to have a stable, technical base on which to work. And because Erdee Media Group has excellent engineers in-house, but not the capacity to build this infrastructure itself, a sustainable, stable solution was sought on which to build the media company.

– Marc Kortleven, Engineer at Erdee Media Groep, talks about how they ended up at Tuxis.

Maximum stability, scalability, redundancy and uptime

The search for an infrastructure led Erdee Media Group to get in touch with Tuxis in 2014. Tuxis’ no-nonsense attitude and expertise made for a pleasant cooperation. The challenge at Erdee Media Group was as follows: The infrastructure had to be fast, stable, scalable and redundant. Management had to be simple, but with the ability to call in help when the need arose. There also had to be no downtime.

This issue resulted in intensive consideration of the solution that ProxmoxVE could offer in combination with Ceph. Proxmox for visualization and Ceph for storage. In order to meet all the requirements and implement this correctly with Proxmox and Ceph, the following was devised: A cluster was built consisting of three servers. Ceph writes all data three times. To each server once. The three servers were placed in three different data centers. This had the effect of allowing a server to fail without losing data or causing downtime. In fact, an entire data center was allowed to fail and nothing would be wrong for the Erdee Media Group. This is where the product “Tuxis Corporate Cloud,” or “TCC” for short, was born.