MFWS · mfws.uk · on-fws.uk

Private cloud infrastructure, quietly done well.

MFWS is a personal infrastructure estate shaped for reliability, performance, and calm operations. Public services stay polished, internal tooling stays private, and the platform underneath is built to be genuinely useful every day.

Speed Test Flight Tracker Kasm

4 Cluster nodes with deliberate capacity for growth, testing, and interactive workloads

99.999% Reliability target supported by strong observability, resilient design, and disciplined operational practice

1x Dedicated public speed testing for quick line checks, clean benchmarking, and external verification

Live Monitoring across services, network paths, storage, and the wider platform core

Designed to feel more like a private platform than a hobby stack.

OpenShift and Kubernetes ideas, practical automation, and a private cloud shape that stays useful day to day. Fast paths for interactive workloads, calm operations in the background, and enough structure to keep the whole estate readable and dependable.

Platform that stays tidy under load

BGP peering, a dedicated ASN, shared storage, and resilient service delivery designed to stay composed under load without turning upkeep into a second job.

Dashboard screens showing charts and monitoring

Visibility from edge to workload

Observability that keeps the estate readable, measured, and easy to trust when something needs attention.

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Security without strangling performance

Published services kept deliberate, internal surfaces kept private, and enough restraint to preserve speed where it matters across UPS-backed infrastructure.

Desk with terminal windows and development screens

What lives here.

Public services with clean edges, remote workspaces when they are useful, observability that stays out of the way, and the kind of private tooling that makes the whole estate feel composed.

Private cloud, not a showroom An estate built to be used, tuned, and trusted rather than endlessly narrated from the front page.

Remote workspaces when a browser will do Kasm for clean throwaway sessions, heavier tools on demand, and less clutter on the daily machine.

Network-first thinking VLANs, DMZ separation, watched uplinks, ADS-B feeds, and enough discipline to keep internet-facing services on a short lead.

OpenShift and Kubernetes, without the ceremony Real cluster habits, practical automation, and a platform built to learn properly while still delivering useful things every day.