- This domain name has been seized by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)
- Police Department pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by the United States Supreme Court
- under the authority of 18 U.S.C. § 918 and 2323.
-
Currently, your DNS provider must support DNS flattening if you intend to point your root domain (e.g. nickorlow.com) to NWS. Subdomains should work fine though. (Cloudflare, Route 53, and Pagely). (Moving to Cloudflare is pretty easy)
+
Through the Web UI, you may only add one domain name. If you need to add more, contact me
+
NWS does not guarantee any uptime
+
NWS is run by a college student with little free time, support may reflect this
+
This platform is very early in development. It may require you to have some technical
+ knowledge.
+
+
NWS may cease operations in the event of a widespread viral infection transmitted via
+ bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to
+ consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the
+ fall of organized civilization.
+
+
+
+
+ }
+ {
+ page === 'framework-hostname' &&
+
+
What is this deployment's name?
+
May only be lowercase letters and dashes, max 20 chars
What is the url of the GitHub repo where your code is hosted?
+
Other git hosting providers are not currently supported through the Web UI
+
The repo must be public to create it through the Web UI
+ {setGUI(e.currentTarget.value)}}/>
+
+
What domain name will you use with your website?
+ {setHUI(e.currentTarget.value)}}/>
+
+
+
+
+
+ }
+ {
+ page === 'scriptgen' &&
+
+
Copy & Paste the below into your terminal to add NWS deployment scripts to your webapp
+
+ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nickorlow/nws-ghactions-templates/main/add-nws.sh | bash -s {strat} {owner} {repo}
+
+ Ensure the script finishes running before continuing
+ For your security, you may view the source code of the script here
+
+
+
+
+
+ }
+ {
+ page === 'dns' &&
+
+
Add the following DNS entry to {new URI("https://"+hostUriInput).hostname()}
+ {
+ new URI("https://"+hostUriInput).subdomain().length == 0 &&
+
+ Sharpe Mountain Compute (fka Nick Web Services) is a reliable cloud compute provider. SMC is dedicated to achieving maximum uptime at a lower cost than traditional cloud compute providers.
+
+ );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/IncidentCard.tsx b/src/components/IncidentCard.tsx
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+import {Incident} from "../nws-api/types";
+import ReactTooltip from "react-tooltip";
+import React from "react";
+
+export default function IncidentCard(props: {incident: Incident}) {
+
+ const severityText: string[] = [
+ "Low Severity means that this issue does not affect any services running on NWS.",
+ "Medium Severity means that this issue may cause some slowdowns or outages on some services.",
+ "High Severity means that this issue causes an outage on the entire NWS network or most of the services running on it."
+ ];
+ let severityClass: string = props.incident.severity == 0 ? 'low' : (props.incident.severity == 1 ? 'med' : 'high');
+ let severityString: string = props.incident.severity == 0 ? 'Low' : (props.incident.severity == 1 ? 'Medium' : 'High');
+
+ return (
+
Average Response Time: {props.uptime.averageResponseTime}ms
+
+ {
+ props.isService &&
+
+ Note that the uptime and performance of services hosted on NWS may be affected by factors not controlled by NWS such as bad bad optimization or buggy software.
+
Average Response Time: {props.uptime.averageResponseTime}ms
+
+ {
+ props.isService &&
+
+ Note that the uptime and performance of services hosted on NWS may be affected by factors not controlled by NWS such as bad bad optimization or buggy software.
+
+ }
+
+
+
+
+ );
+}
diff --git a/src/components/UptimeLabelCard.tsx b/src/components/UptimeLabelCard.tsx
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+import {UptimeRecord} from "../nws-api/types";
+import React, {useState} from "react";
+import '../App.css';
+import "./UptimeCard.css"
+import Modal from "react-modal";
+
+export default function UptimeLabelCard() {
+
+ return(
+
- On November 8th, 2023 at approximately 09:47 UTC, NWS suffered
- a complete outage. This outage resulted in the downtime of all
- services hosted on NWS and the downtime of the NWS Management
- Engine and the NWS dashboard.
-
-
-
- The incident lasted 38 minutes after which it was automatically
- resolved and all services were restored. This is NWS' first
- outage event of 2023.
-
-
-
Cause
-
- NWS utilizes several tactics to ensure uptime. A component of
- this is load balancing and failover. This service is currently
- provided by Cloudflare at the DNS level. Cloudflare sends
- health check requests to NWS servers at specified intervals. If
- it detects that one of the servers is down, it will remove the
- A record from entry.nws.nickorlow.com for that server (this domain
- is where all services on NWS direct their traffic via a
- CNAME).
-
-
-
- At around 09:47 UTC, Cloudflare detected that our servers in
- Texas (Austin and Hill Country) were down. It did not detect an
- error, but rather an HTTP timeout. This is an indication that the
- server may have lost network connectivity. When Cloudflare detected that the
- servers were down, it removed their A records from the
- entry.nws.nickorlow.com domain. Since NWS Pennsylvania servers
- have been undergoing maintenance since August 2023, this left no
- servers able to serve requests routed to entry.nws.nickorlow.com,
- resulting in the outage.
-
-
-
- NWS utilizes UptimeRobot for monitoring the uptime statistics of
- services on NWS and NWS servers. This is the source of the
- statistics shown on the NWS status page.
-
-
-
- UptimeRobot did not detect either of the Texas NWS servers as being
- offline for the duration of the outage. This is odd, as UptimeRobot
- and Cloudflare did not agree on the status of NWS servers. Logs
- on NWS servers showed that requests from UptimeRobot were being
- served while no requests from Cloudflare were shown in the logs.
-
-
-
- No firewall rules existed that could have blocked the healthcheck traffic from Cloudflare
- for either of the NWS servers. There was no other configuration
- found that would have blocked these requests. As these servers
- are on different networks inside different buildings in different
- parts of Texas, their networking equipment is entirely separate.
- This rules out any failure of networking equipment owned
- by NWS. This leads us to believe that the issue may have been
- caused due to an internet traffic anomaly, although we are currently
- unable to confirm that this is the cause of the issue.
-
-
-
- This is being actively investigated to find a more concrete root
- cause. This postmortem will be updated if any new information is
- found.
-
-
-
- A similar event occurred on November 12th, 2023 lasting for 2 seconds.
-
-
-
Fix
-
- The common factor between both of these servers is that they both use
- Spectrum for their ISP and that they are located near Austin, Texas.
- The Pennsylvania server maintenance will be expedited so that we have
- servers online that operate with no commonalities.
-
-
-
- NWS will also investigate other methods of failover and load
- balancing.
-
- On November 28th, 2024 at approximately 07:37 UTC, NWS suffered
- a complete outage. This outage resulted in the downtime of all
- services hosted on NWS and the downtime of the NWS Management
- Engine and the NWS dashboard.
-
-
-
- The incident lasted 10 days and 15 hours after which it was manually
- resolved and all services were restored. This was NWS' first
- outage event of 2024.
-
-
-
- Since then, similar outages have occurred.
-
-
-
Cause
-
- NWS utilizes several tactics to ensure uptime. A component of
- this is load balancing and failover. Due to logistical issues,
- only one NWS point of presence has been operating since early
- November 2024. This means that any issue with the remaining
- datacenter will result in a total outage. More points of presence
- are expected to be brought online in August 2024. Similar incidents are
- expected until then.
-
-
-
- This outage lasted 10 days due to the fact that I was busy with
- school. I'm not super concerned about maintaining high uptime with
- only one server, and I'm pretty happy with NWS since we hit 100% uptime
- for a >365 day period.
-
-
-
- The cause of the outage was that the Xfinity ( yeah :( ) router that
- NWS uses in the Pottsville location encountered an issue which caused
- it to automatically drop all port forwards. To combat this issue, a new
- Ubiquiti EdgeMax router is scheduled to be installed in December 2024.
-
-
-
-
Fix
-
- The port forwards were restored and the router is scheduled to be replaced.
-
- Nick Web Services is a hosting service based out of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- and the State of Texas.
- We are committed to achieving maximum uptime with better performance and a lower
- cost than any of the major cloud services.
-
-
-
-We operate four datacenters located across three cities in two states. This infrastructure setup ensures redundancy and failover capabilities, minimizing downtime risks. Additionally, the geographical distribution enhances speed and accessibility, reducing latency for users across different regions.
-
-
-
- This has led to us maintaining four nines availability (99.9931% ; 38 minutes of downtime
- all year) for 2023 and 100% uptime for the period from 11/8/2023 to 11/28/2024 (over a year!). This was the original goal of NWS.
-
-
-
- Currently, NWS is only able to operate with one point of presence and as such, will
- have reduced uptime. This is expected to be resolved around August 2024.
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/templates/layout.html b/templates/layout.html
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-
-
-
-
- {% if let Some(title) = page_title %}
- {{ title }}
- {% else %}
- Nick Web Services
- {% endif %}
-
- {% if let Some(desc) = page_desc %}
-
- {% else %}
-
- {% endif %}
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ content|safe }}
-
-
+
+# nws-site
+The offical website for Nick Web Services (aka NWS)
+
+## Features
+- Shows uptime of NWS servers
+- Running on over-engineered infrastructure
+- Very simple yet effective design
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- 
- 
- 
-