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FrodshamPictures.com

Maintenance Page

Frodsham Pictures is taking a break while we upgrade the systems behind the site.


We’re working on some major projects at the moment including hollow-core optical (air instead of glass for 30% lower latency), AI native optical to predict congestion, adjust optical power and wavelength and detect fibre degredation before it happens, disaggregated fibre networks, to separare service layers from electronics and fibre instratucture and installing WiFI 8. Basically, anything to do with latency, intelligence, scalability and deployment efficiency and once we work out what all the means, we'll make a start. 


Thank you for your patience.


FrodshamPictures. Container: FROD01_2  | Status: Quiescent

The Frodsham Pictures website is offline at the moment. We will restore its container image  just as soon as we can.

Networks

1340

Exits

18

Data Sizes up to

20 PB

Frodsham EUD's

89

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WeaverWeb

Just to dispel the myth that none of our private digital Cryostone C2 archive blobs have ever been housed within Frodsham Caves. Although the cooling would have been excellent, the caves sit on private land with no secure perimeter, no cabling infrastructure, and no environmental controls suitable for equipment of this type. Sandstone dust, humidity, and seasonal water ingress would compromise filtration systems, invalidate insurance for electrical racking, and breach basic Health & Safety requirements around lighting, ergonomics, safe exits, and emergency response.


 The large number of cows that shelter there in winter would only add to the accessibility and safety concerns of what our engineers could be stepping into. All services have always operated above ground in concrete infrastructure, supported by a 440 MHA emergency Starlink high‑access point that we maintain for use during states of emergency.

Web Design

We used to do the full requirements gathering, design prototyping and coustomer UX journey and all that  la-de-dah stuff. Nowadays its easier just to get AI to do it. We then just tidy up what it gets wrong.

Apps

AI can do all the boring stuff and we just fit the fancy REACT javascript Webd3GL; chuck in a few web-scrollers and job done, right?  Well, no actually. Its not about what fancy tech and animated web visuals you can throw at a client, it is truly understanding the client's business and what would work for them and understanding what journey they want their clients to take. How do we make that journey easy. You don't need "press this", choose this option from a lots of options never explained, now why does the pop-up's "OK" button appear lower than my screen can handle? Now enter password. Password rejected. OK, so click forgot password. Now check your email for a reset link. Click it. Reset page. Enter old password you can't remember to be able to enter a new one, so you can. What!? Enter password. It doesn't meet the numbers and letters criteria. OK entered. Thanks. Now check your phone for an SMS verification number and enter the first number you thought of. Was your card the 6 of diamonds? We make complexity simple.

Frodsham Pictures

Frodsham Pictures' will be parked during 2026 - whilst we focus on other commitments. The site was powered from Canada during 2022-2024, then Stockholm 2024-2025 and High Wycombe, Bucks from 2026 onwards. To power our community sites we've used Hetzner for many years for storage and backend processing rather than web-hosting, though even they are now forced to increase their prices post April 1st 2026. Up until December 2025 we had found IT service costs to be about 30% higher in the UK than we had found in France, Germany or Sweden, due to their lower energy costs, more competitive data centre markets and more favourable regulatory environments.However, that gap has significantly reduced and soon all services are expected to suffer inflationary pressure due to the oil crisis driving higher energy costs. On the plus side, we do use solar panels where we can, including our own outdoor bird-feeder cam.


All material here is ficticious as it is only meant as a Maintenance page instead of the usual 404 marker whilst the #FROD01_02 container is re-configured and deployed. 

All characters portrayed here are either made-up or live in Frodsham.