Web hosting for ARTE

Description

ARTE is a European cultural TV Channel and platform broadcasting its programmes in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian and Polish. ARTE is made up of three entities - the head office based in Strasbourg (named ARTE GEIE), and the two structures responsible for producing and designing the programmes (ARTE France based in Paris and ARTE Deutschland based in Baden-Baden). This procedure focuses on the web hosting for ARTE websites. As a brief overview, ARTE websites can currently be considered as a set made up of the following applications: — the main ARTE website, www.arte.tv, including the television catch-up service (replay) on a NodeJS server, behind a CDN/Varnish proxy-cache infrastructure, — API to structure content delivery on the various platforms in PHP/Symfony, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch, — a Wordpress Site Factory, — a range of professional websites on Java/Tomcat/MySQL/S3. Lot 1: Currently, ARTE’s Internet content is watched primarily on the web (50%), but ARTE is experiencing strong growth in traffic through mobile technology apps (smartphone and tablet-35%), smart TVs and other OTT apps. As a whole, 85% of visitors to its websites are French or German and 12% come from the rest of Europe. ARTE intends to broaden its audience following the successful launch of its programmes in English, Spanish, Italian and Polish. Up to 200 ARTE contributors upload content to the various systems. Around 10 different teams, from both within ARTE and externally, undertake the technical projects for the range of platforms under the supervision of ARTE GEIE, ARTE France or ARTE Deutschland. This represents over 100 production and pre-production servers, 95th percentile bandwidth of around 500 Mb/s High traffic websites are placed behind a CDN acceleration system. Websites operate mainly using open source software bricks based on Linux CentOS or containers hosted on kubbernetes. ARTE chose the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solution. This procedure does not concern the distribution of videos and location-based acceleration, which is handled by a CDN (Content Delivery Network) Akamaï in parallel to the website hosting.