Lovely · running live on AWS
It’s lovely to see you.
Built to never miss a beat.
Lovely isn’t live yet — its infrastructure already is.
This line is fetched client-side, so it stays live even though this page itself is served from the CloudFront edge cache.
The architecture
Three layers, one promise:
stay up.
Every layer below removes a way this site could go down — at the edge, inside the region, and across the world.
Global
Traffic is filtered and cached at the edge before it ever reaches a server.
Resilient
Two Availability Zones, interchangeable servers, shared storage. Lose one — nothing stops.
Recoverable
A second region in Europe stays warm and continuously fed, ready to take over.
By the numbers
No single point of failure.
Security & operations
Locked down by default.
Managed WAF rules
Common exploits and bad bots filtered before the origin.
Encrypted end to end
TLS in transit, encryption at rest on every volume and database.
Secrets rotate themselves
Database credentials cycle automatically, with no downtime.
Private by design
Servers and databases sit in private subnets, never exposed directly.
Golden image pipeline
Every server launches from one hardened, versioned machine image.
Private link to on-prem
An encrypted site-to-site tunnel joins the office network to the cloud.
Edge cache
This page is cached.
Its numbers are not.
The words you are reading were handed to you by a CloudFront edge near you — our servers were never involved. The live readings above still change, because the browser goes and gets those separately. Both facts are read from this page’s own response headers, below.
This page — the HTML
Reading the response headers…
age at the edge: —
The live readings
Fetched straight from the origin every four seconds, so the cache never gets to hold them.
x-cache: Miss from cloudfront
Don’t take our word for it.
Open the live page and watch the load balancer hand you between servers, in real time.
See it live →