NTP Stratum1 Server - ask for opinion of dashboard

Hello everyone,

My friends and me are trying to make custom made gadgets, and one of those is a Stratum1 NTP Server.

After almost 6 months of offline testing, we have joined the pool with this NTP server and so far it works pretty well.

Part of the whole project was to create a dashboard for this server, and I would like to kindly ask the comunity, if you have 10 minutes, would you mind to check it online and tell me your honest opinion? Our goal is to make it as good as possible with useful informations provided to the operator. I would be glad if you could find few minutes to comment it.

The dashboard and the Stratum1 server itself is available here:

stratum1: timehub1.xichtee.com on usual port 123

dashboard: https://timehub1.xichtee.com:8443

Please accept my appology, if this is not acceptable to ask for thing like this, and I will of course immediately delete the topic.

Thank you in advance

Hi

Sounds like an interesting project but first up you may want to look at the site certificate issues. Using wget on a recent Debian I get

$ wget --debug -O out.txt https://timehub1.xichtee.com:8443
Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to out.txt
DEBUG output created by Wget 1.25.0 on linux-gnu.

URI encoding = ‘UTF-8’
--2026-05-27 20:13:17--  https://timehub1.xichtee.com:8443/
Certificates loaded: 150
Resolving timehub1.xichtee.com (timehub1.xichtee.com)... 87.197.134.146
Caching timehub1.xichtee.com => 87.197.134.146
Connecting to timehub1.xichtee.com (timehub1.xichtee.com)|87.197.134.146|:8443... connected.
Created socket 4.
Releasing 0x0000562bb451f2e0 (new refcount 1).
ERROR: The certificate of ‘timehub1.xichtee.com’ is not trusted.
ERROR: The certificate of ‘timehub1.xichtee.com’ doesn't have a known issuer.
The certificate's owner does not match hostname ‘timehub1.xichtee.com’

Hi @gombadi

thank you for the reaction,

yes, that is for now an ongoing topic, as originally this was meant to be used mainly offline, so the certificate is only self signed (apologize for incorrect wording) generated locally using openssl.

should be fixed, now :slight_smile:

These are just my thoughts. Others may have differing thoughts but a few things

  • Not sure what benefit/info the moving dots on the page background provide. They tend to distract from the page data as the eye tends to follow their movement.
  • In the “Time Synchronization Status” section there is the “System Time” line. Sometimes this is one line(on my screen) and sometimes two. When the number of lines changes all the data below it moves up or down a bit. This makes it really difficult to read the lines in the “NTP Server Performance” section as they are jumping around all the time.
  • The “About Us” link seems to need the person to login. Normally an About Us section is open to anyone to view without having to create an account and login.

Looking good though.

Hi @gombadi

thanks for the comments.

  • The background was my friend’s design - you know - “neural” background :smiley: but agree, it is distracting.
  • I have set the font size to smaller, when watched from mobile. I suppose you were checking it on phone.
  • aaa yess, thanks for checking that part, I completely forgot to set the redirection to the proper page :slight_smile:

Thanks again for your time, truly appreciated :slight_smile:

No Using Safari and/or Firefox on a 15 inch Macbook.

need to investigate this, cause on windows both firefox and edge shows only one line, and on androit chrome, same thing. So not sure why the formating is different in your case. Will take a look at it.

Thanks for your time checking this out :slight_smile:

I also see the same as gombadi with Firefox on a FreeBSD machine with a 27" screen. In my case if it is a single digit ns, it fits on a single line, otherwise it uses two lines.

hmm… I have shortened the information to xxx ns/us fast/slow … hopefuly now it wont jump up and down