Setting up the domain and DNS

I registered rossprogram.org with namecheap.

DNS is still managed with namecheap.

Static content on rossprogram.org

We are hosting our static content from a GitHub repository with GitHub pages.

Email

We use migadu for email, and Amazon SES for automated email (e.g., handling password requests during the application season).

recommend.rossprogram.org

Teachers submit recommendations via a recommendation portal. This is hosted on S3. The source is available at https://github.com/rossprogram/recommend

apply.rossprogram.org

Applicants submit their application materials via an application portal. This is hosted on S3. The source is available at https://github.com/rossprogram/apply

The API server

The API backend provides

To deploy, the key material must first be unlocked via

git-crypt unlock

This will decrypt the .key files which hold passwords and shared secrets.

Then the machines can then be deployed via

nixops create -d ross ross.nix
nixops deploy

Note that this also builds the API backend via a nix expression.

It does not create the databases. For this,

mongo
use ross

The IPFS server

/dnsaddr/ipfs.rossprogram.org/tcp/4001/QmNjT28jp3MiaiMV9LTYPMwk1cSwDC5FNJURJTN23bxr4B

/ip4/18.191.230.175/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmNjT28jp3MiaiMV9LTYPMwk1cSwDC5FNJURJTN23bxr4B