A paid order that no host has room for used to FAIL at the reservation
step. The customer has paid by then, so that turned a sale into an
incident and left somebody holding money against nothing. The estate is
finite and booked thick, so "no host has room right now" is an ordinary
Tuesday — it means a machine has to be bought, which takes days.
So the order waits instead. poll(), not retry(): the wait is measured in
days and must not eat the run's attempt budget. It only fails after
PARK_DAYS (14) — long enough to buy, rack and onboard a server over a
weekend, short enough that a forgotten order surfaces instead of waiting
for ever.
Then say so, in the same words on both sides of the payment:
- The price sheet marks each package "wird sofort ausgeliefert" or
"Bereitstellung in 2-3 Werktagen", read from free capacity rather
than written into the page.
- The customer's own overview says their cloud is being prepared while
it is parked, instead of a stepper standing still for two days under
"wird eingerichtet" — which reads as broken.
- The console front page shows the same per-package answer, so an
operator can see what visitors are being promised.
And a capacity page for the decision that follows: who is waiting, what
the roomiest host still has, what the queue needs ("3x Start, 1x
Business" - the LARGEST parked package sets the minimum machine, because
an instance lives on one host), and what such a machine costs today from
the provider's live list. It orders nothing: buying a server is a
contract, and a bug in a capacity calculation must not sign one.
The operator can also say where each parked order goes. A pin is
honoured or it waits — never quietly redirected — because placing it
elsewhere answers a different question than the one they answered, and
they would find out from the finished instance.
Two things this shook out:
- `current_step` is an INDEX into the pipeline, not the step's key, and
it is cast to integer. `where('current_step', 'reserve_resources')`
reads as correct and matches step 0 of EVERY pipeline instead. Both
lookups go through HostCapacity::parkedRuns() now, which resolves the
index and filters by pipeline.
- The auction feed sends `hdd_hr` as a list, not a string. Casting it
printed "Array" into the console and raised a warning that took the
page down with it.
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The panel had been built by reading the template and believing the result.
Every round of review found the same class of defect, so this round the
template was rendered in a browser and measured with getComputedStyle, and the
implementation measured the same way — two number columns instead of an
opinion.
That immediately settled a disagreement: a review of the template's SOURCE said
the metric grid used a 20px gap. Rendered, it is 14px. The measurement wins.
Brought to the template's figures: label 11.5px (it was 11px in three separate
places, which is how it drifted — it is now one .lbl rule), value tracking
-0.02em, unit weight 450, metric row 6px above and 14px between, page head
centred with a 14px gap, grid gap 14px, columns switching at 1101/561px and the
h1 at 901px to match the template's own breakpoints, ring 62px, bar 5px.
The shared button now takes its height from min-height (40px) rather than
vertical padding, at 14px/600 with 0 18px padding and a 10px radius — a button
keeps its height whatever sits inside it, icon, spinner or bare text.
Also here, from the same round of review:
- The chart's blue border was Tailwind's own `ring` utility colliding with a
component class of the same name. Renamed to `.metric-ring`. This was
dismissed once as a screenshot artefact; it was real.
- Page titles lost the `sm:text-3xl` (40px) an earlier bulk edit had appended
to 23 of them. The template's h1 is 30px.
- The users table has its actions back — edit, suspend, lock and delete — for
every seat that is not the owner, with the owner refused in the action itself
and not merely hidden in the markup.
DemoCustomerSeeder writes one complete customer as real rows: instance,
subscription, six seats across four roles, a backup, current-period traffic and
thirty days of samples with a deliberate wobble and one day at 286/288 checks.
Nothing in the panel is drawn from a fixture any more, so anything missing
shows up as missing. Removing the demo is one deletion.
Verified: 607 tests, and a Codex comparison of the two measurement sets —
"a person would call them the same design", the only difference a 1px gap.
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The breadcrumb said Übersicht on every page. The sidebar and the breadcrumb
each built their own copy of the structure, so the layout had no way to know
which entry was current and fell back to the first one. Navigation::portal()
and ::console() are now the single definition, and currentLabel() matches on the
route name — which matters for the console, whose PATH changes between
host-bound and fallback mode while its route names do not.
The datacentre name is out of everything a customer sees, for the third time
and now at the source rather than in a template. Falkenstein is how an
operator places an instance; a customer's processing record names the
jurisdiction, and putting the building in customer copy means editing that copy
every time the estate grows.
Also swept the views onto the new scale: --text-faint is 2.8:1 and a decoration
token, but it was carrying table headers, hints and timestamps — text people
have to read. All of it moved to --muted, which is 5.0:1 and passes AA.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three console pages were fiction. The front page claimed 42 customers, 39
instances, four hosts named pve-fsn-1..3 and €7,842 a month, over a twelve-month
growth curve; the instance list held seven invented machines; the revenue page
reported churn and a trend for a business with no recorded history. All of it
was hard-coded. It read like a running company and measured nothing.
They now read the database. Two figures are gone rather than approximated —
the revenue trend, which needs a monthly history nobody records, and churn,
which needs a base the data cannot supply. ARR stays, labelled as the
projection it is. The green "all systems normal" badge is computed from the
notice list instead of asserted, and the notices themselves come from failed
runs, hosts reporting errors or gone quiet, and monitoring that is down.
Host load is the one number that had to agree with something else: placement
counts the VM disk allocation, ignores a failed instance that never got a VM,
and subtracts the host's reserve. A dashboard doing its own arithmetic would
show a host as comfortable while orders were already being refused on it, so it
uses the host's own accounting — with the filter moved into a scope both share,
and the sum preloaded so listing hosts stays one query.
The instance list drops the Nextcloud version column: that version is not
recorded anywhere, and a column filled with a plausible number is worse than no
column. Statuses the lifecycle writes but nobody had translated no longer
render as "admin.status.failed".
The price sheet also gains the included traffic, which the catalogue has always
carried and the page simply never printed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Separate admin console at /admin, gated to is_admin users (EnsureAdmin middleware
+ migration/seed; a plain customer user is seeded to prove the gate). Distinct dark
aesthetic achieved purely by token scoping: .theme-admin overrides every CSS design
token to a dark graphite / signal-orange palette, so ALL shared components (button,
card, badge, table, stat, chart) render dark with zero new markup (R3). Chart island
now reads tokens from its own element, so charts are theme-aware.
Sections (each full-page class-based Livewire, English routes R13, localized DE/EN):
- Overview: fleet KPIs, fleet-growth line, host-load bars, MRR bars, active runs, alerts.
- Customers: table + plan doughnut. Instances: fleet table (vmid/host/storage).
- Hosts: capacity cards (storage/CPU bars). Provisioning: runs table + live stepper.
- Revenue: MRR/ARR/ARPU/churn KPIs, MRR line, plan doughnut, recent payments.
- Locale-aware month labels/currency (Carbon/Number).
18 new Pest tests (guest redirect / non-admin 403 / admin render per section) → 44
green. R12 browser: all six admin pages HTTP 200, ZERO console errors (Chart.js dark).
Codex (R15) — clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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