🔧 Edgy

VERSION CHECK

This documentation applies to Edgy v.5.0. Please ensure you're running Edgy v.5.0 or newer for the latest features including SMS notifications and an improved configuration experience. To upgrade, visit your Installed Apps page.

The Skinny

Want to always be online for your visitors even when your site isn't responding? Set up Never Go Down to receive alerts the moment your site is down and render a page letting visitors know you're still there.

When Never Go Down is active:

Never Go Down won't kick in when your site is responding normally.

graph LR A[Browser] --> |request| B{Edgy} style B fill:#FAC37E,stroke:#333,stroke-width:3px B -- status<500 --- C(GET yoursite.com) style C fill:#FFF,stroke:#50C878,stroke-width:1px B --> |response| A

When your site stops responding normally, Edgy renders a page of your choice and optionally dispatches email or webhook based notifications.

graph LR A[Browser] --> |request| B{Edgy} style B fill:#FAC37E,stroke:#333,stroke-width:3px B -- status>500 --- C(GET yoursite.com) style C fill:#FFF,stroke:#FF0000,stroke-width:1px B --> |Never Go Down Page| A

Need a lightning-fast, on-demand maintenance page? You're in the right place. Toggle maintenance mode on and off as needed. It can even be set up on a per-route basis if you only want to take part of your site offline.

When Maintenance Mode is on:

When a route (or the entire website) is in maintenance mode, Edgy renders the maintenance mode page.

graph LR A[Browser] --> |request| B{Edgy} style B fill:#FAC37E,stroke:#333,stroke-width:3px B --> |Maintenance Page| A

Tutorials

Check out these tutorials to see Edgy in action:

Never go down again

Keep your website online even when your servers aren't

One-click maintenance mode

See on-demand, route based maintenance mode in action

Create bypass codes for your devs

Set up bypass codes to access your site while in maintenance mode

How to Install

Powered by Cloudflare

Edgy is powered by Cloudflare. If you're already using Cloudflare, click here to install Edgy.

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Cloudflare offers DDoS protection, a global CDN, SSL certificates, and a lot more cool stuff for free. You should probably use it.

Getting Started

After installation, activate Edgy by clicking the link in the email we sent you.

Next, visit our tutorials to get started with various platforms. Learn more about Fortify and troubleshooting in the following sections:

• FAQ

Have a Twitter account? Extend your free trial!

Visit edgy.networkchimp.com/extend for more details.

Upgrade to Unlimited

Looking for the unlimited plan? You can find it here.

Reference

Edgy is dirt simple to set up. You can get the gist of it from the installation page, but we'll dig into the nuts and bolts below.

The following Site Configuration Options are available:

• Site Name
• Site Logo

The following Never Go Down Options are available:

• Downtime Template
• Downtime Template Location
• Email Alerts
• SMS Alerts
• Webhook Alerts

The following Maintenance Mode Options are available:

• Maintenance Mode
• Activate Maintenance Mode
• Scheduled Maintenance Mode
• Maintenance Routes
• Response Status
• Bypass Code

The following Maintenance Template Options are available:

• Site Name
• Heading Text
• Subheading Text
• Theme
• Maintenance Template
• Maintenance Template Location

Site Configuration

Site-related information used to personalize the Status Page Maintenance Mode pages.

Site Name

Name of your website to display in maintenance and status page templates.

Site Logo

Logo to display in maintenance and status page templates.

Never Go Down

Never Go Down keeps your site online even when your site isn't responding. Instead of seeing an ugly and potentially scary error page when your server isn't responding, Edgy renders a friendly downtime template your choice.

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An Edgy-Mode=maintenance response header is set when Never Go Down is keeping your site online.

Edgy can be configured to send Email Alerts and/or Webhook Alerts when your site isn't responding.

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Never Go Down is activated by the following 500-level response errors from your server: 500 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 510 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 530.

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Consider enabling both Never Go Down and Status Page to benefit fully from their synergistic features. When your site isn't responding, Never Go Down renders a friendly template of your choice to let users know you're still there and can link to your status page to communicate updates to your users, even when your site isn't responding.

Never Go Down Options

Enable Never Go Down

Never Go Down can be enabled in a variety of modes. You can choose to:

Render Edgy's maintenance template

Configured in the Maintenance Mode section.

Render an HTML template

Paste in your own HTML template to render during mainteannce mode.

Render a remotely-hosted webpage

Render another webpage on the internet during maintenance mode.

Test Never Go Down

CAUTION! Automatically takes your website offline in order to test Never Go Down. Once enabled, visit your website to trigger Never Go Down including any configured notifications.

WARNING

Make sure to disable this after testing in order to bring your website back online.

Disable Never Go Down

Turning off Never Go Down will:

• Disable Edgy from sending your Never Go Down Alerts
• Disable Edgy's and render Cloudflare's normal 5xx error pages when your server experiences network connectivity issues or internal errors

Downtime Template

Edgy renders this HTML template if your server experiences network connectivity issues or internal errors.

WARNING

Do not include base64 encoded images in your template due to strict template size restrictions.

Downtime Template Location

Edgy renders the page at this public web address when your server experiences network connectivity issues or internal errors.

Alerting

Enable Alerts to quickly and effectively receive timely alerts when your site isn't responding. Edgy offers a variety of alerting mechanisms outlined in the sections below.

Alerting Options

Email Alerts

BETA

When your site isn't responding, Edgy will immediately send a downtime alert with follow-up alerts every 30 minutes to five or fewer email addresses. Email addresses listed here will receive alerts similar to the following templates.

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Ensure alerts are not being sent to your Spam folder by whitelisting emails from [email protected] to your Inbox.

To receive a test alert to your email address, send the following request:

curl http://notifier.networkchimp.com/notifier/test/YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS

SMS Alerts

BETA

When your site isn't responding or comes back online, Edgy will send a single SMS alert to five or fewer valid phone numbers.

Webhook Alerts

BETA

When your site isn't responding, Edgy will immediately send a downtime alert with follow-up alerts every 5 minutes to an endpoint of your choice. If your endpoint requires authorization, the value of the Authorization header may be set in the Authorization header field.

A webhook alert is delivered as a POST request with Content-Type: application/json and the following body:

isDown: boolean
requestUrl: string
requestMethod: string
responseStatus: string

Maintenance Mode

Edgy's Maintenance Mode is a simple and powerful developer tool used to safely take parts of your site offline for maintenance and replace it with a Theme of your choice.

Maintenance Mode may be activated on your entire domain or on part of your domain by setting a list of Maintenance Routes, and can be activated manually or scheduled by setting a future date in Scheduled Maintenance Mode.

Maintenance Mode Options

Activate Maintenance Mode

Activate maintenance mode in one of the following modes to render a friendly maintenance page.

Activate it on my entire domain

Immediatly activate maintenance mode on every page on your domain

Activate it on a part of my domain

Immediatly activate maintenance mode on only the routes provided in Maintenance Routes.

Schedule it on my entire domain

Schedule maintenance mode for a future date on your entire domain.

Schedule it on a part of my domain

Schedule maintenance mode for a future date on part of your site.

Disable maintenance mode on my domain

Disable maintenance mode on your entire site

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An Edgy-Mode=maintenance response header is set when maintenance mode is active.

Maintenance Routes

The Maintenance Template will be displayed on these routes during maintenance mode. This may be any route on your domain including subdomains. It is important that a full URL is specified here. Edgy won't like it if you supply a path like /store here. It requires a URL like yoursite.com/store to work right. Here's some more examples in an informative table.

Route URL	Result
/sad/path	🤮
yoursite.com/cool-beans	🎉
blog.yoursite.com	🎉

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Edgy will automatically enable maintenance mode for any requests to subfolders of Route URL. In the table above, traffic to blog.yoursite.com/topics will also enter maintenance mode.

Scheduled Maintenance Mode

Activate maintenance mode after this valid ISO 8601 instant. Remove this value to disable Scheduled Maintence Mode.

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An Edgy-Mode=maintenance response header is set when maintenance mode is active.

Bypass Code

Provide a Bypass Code to work on your domain while in maintenance mode. After setting a Bypass Code, pass it along with the page URL in a EdgyBypassCode query string.

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If Maintenance Mode is active and Bypass Code=a6vgfQ, a request to www.yoursite.com?EdgyBypassCode=a6vgfQ will bypass maintenance mode for 24 hours. To stop bypassing maintenance mode, clear the edgy-bypass cookie in your browser.

Maintenance Template Options

Choose one of our built-in themes or bring your own template to render in Maintenance Mode.

Site Name

The name of your site to be displayed in the <title> attribute of the Maintenance Template. The title of the page will be [Site Name] | Under Maintenance.

Heading Text

The Heading text to display in the Maintenance Template.

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The Heading Text is "We're undergoing a bit of scheduled maintenance" in the Themes images below.

Subheading Text

The Subheading text to display in the Maintenance Template.

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The Subheading Text is "We'll be back online" in the Themes images below.

Theme

Choose from one of the following themes for the Maintenance Template.

Custom Template

Bring your own HTML Maintenance Template or Maintenance Template Location.

Multilingual Theme

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A link to your Status Page is automatically included if the status page is enabled.

Rustic Theme

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A link to your Status Page is automatically included if the status page is enabled.

Modern Theme

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A link to your Status Page is automatically included if the status page is enabled.

Surreal Theme

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A link to your Status Page is automatically included if the status page is enabled.

Maintenance Template

Template to display during Maintenance Mode. Refer to the following table for more information.

Image src attribute	Result
../assets/my-image.png	🤮
https://somehost.com/my-image.png	🎉

WARNING

Do not include base64 encoded images in your template due to strict template size restrictions.

Maintenance Template Location

Renders the page at this public web address during Maintenance Mode. Maintenance Template Location will be rendered if both Maintenance Template Location and Maintenance Template are set.

FAQ

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Attributions

The Maintenance Template gear logo was designed by Icongeek26 at FlatIcon.

The Maintenance Template surreal drawings were made by a talented person at Absurd Design.