ANALYSIS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF VIRTUALIZATION-BASED SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE USING PROXMOX VE TO SUPPORT INFORMATION SERVICES AT NASPCI

Abstract

This study aims to analyze infrastructure requirements, implement a virtualization-based standalone server using Proxmox VE, test infrastructure performance, and evaluate the implementation results using the PIECES framework. The National Air & Space Power Center of Indonesia (NASPCI) previously relied on commercial shared hosting to support its website-based information services. This arrangement limited administrative control, configuration flexibility, and resource management, while also creating a dependency on third-party service providers. The study employs the Network Development Life Cycle (NDLC) methodology, encompassing the stages of analysis, design, simulation/prototyping, implementation, monitoring, and management. The implemented infrastructure comprises Proxmox VE 8.4.19, an Ubuntu Server 20.04.6 LTS virtual machine, Nginx, PHP 7.4.3, MariaDB 10.3.39, CodeIgniter 3, GitHub, and Cloudflare Tunnel. Testing covered connectivity, web service access, CPU, RAM, storage, uptime, response time, and core website functionality. Results showed 0% packet loss for Proxmox VE and Ubuntu Server, an HTTP 200 status for both local and public HTTPS access, an average response time of 0.108 seconds, CPU usage of approximately 6.2%, available memory of around 1.5 GiB, and 30% root storage utilization. The PIECES evaluation demonstrated improvements in administrative control, resource flexibility, management efficiency, and the independence of information services. This research contributes by implementing a Proxmox VE standalone server to replace shared hosting, subjecting it to technical testing and comprehensive evaluation within the context of the non-profit organization NASPCI.