Pottsville, PA - Philadelphia, PA - Austin, TX
For various reasons, NWS had to shut down all datacenters except the Pottsville, PA location. Due to only having one point of presence, NWS has been unable to deliver reliable uptime. Furthermore, the maintenance required to run NWS has become a bit too much for me, especially since it now no longer provides any benefits over just having a server running all of my services with docker compose.
Due to the above complications, NWS shut down on April 4th, 2025 at 4:48 PM EDT. During the time NWS was operating from 2021 - 2025, it was able to deliver consistently high uptime, including for having 100% uptime for over a year between the dates of 11/8/2023 and 11/28/2024.
In August, NWS may be able to open another datacenter, at which point it may resume operations.
This website (and my other websites) are just being run on my homelab as docker containers under docker compose.
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.