Odd situation with Nuxt hosting and site accessibility
Hey everyone. First post on this Discord. We have a Nuxt app (an intranet, small company app) that we have deployed through Digital Ocean. We love it. It works flawlessly, except one issue. Anyone on Verizon Wireless can't access it. From in our out of their company, from all over our state, you can access and use the app in any situation except if you are on a VZW network, not on WI-FI. It's not a DNS issue either.
We looked into Digital Ocean, but the firewall isn't even turned on at all. Digital Ocean uses CloudFlare, but there's no interface for that even. So we really are kind of stuck there.
In the odd scenario that we may have to try a different host, everything that Nuxt and Nitro suggest has less than ideal pricing options (pay per user, large fees for a small project, etc) and generally uses some kind of edge network (CDN). What do people do on here for hosting? Any advice?
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What specifically are you referring to, when you say can't access it?
- does
nslookup <your-web-site> return your IP address in the A record (DNS)?
- can you ping <your-web-site> your site (connectivity / TCP)?
- can you not curl -v <your-web-site> your site (HTTP/S)?We get a DNS error name not resolved when trying to open the URL while on VZW
We are working on trying to nslookup and ping but everyone is gone for the day but me, and I have to leave now too
Well then it certainly sounds like a DNS issue though?
It's definitely a DNS issue. Not sure if Cloudflare is blocking all VZW or if Verizon is blocking the IP / URLs of the app
By checking if it already fails with
nslookup or rather only at the ping you can find out if the IP is blocked/not resolved for some reason at DNS level, or at the actual networking level.
If Cloudflare was blocking the ASN (which I don't really think), then I would think that it would display a "Your ASN is blocked" page, instead of not resolving at all.Good point.
I suspect that it's VZW not playing nice
MN
It's definitely Verizon DNS issue. Not sure if it doesn't like the IP address or what.
Regarding Digital Ocean, App Platform does not offer any level of networking management, period. No firewall control, no IP management, nada. Buying IPs is one of the most upvoted feature requests, their engineers say it’s a work in progress, but nothing new has come out of that in 6 months.
What should we consider if we switch hosts
We moved just one subdomain to Digital Ocean. Main domain is somewhere else. Main works fine, just the sub on DO from VZW has the issues
Would Google Cloud work fine to host a Nuxt app?
Intranet that uses Supabase. It uses a few other APIs too
So not simple but not insane
So like Liquidweb, Google Cloud, or something like that?
Yeah dont need a CDN either, it's an intranet