System status
NORDHEM runs in two honest modes. Full mode uses the Elasticsearch engine on a real machine (semantic search, facets, synonyms). When that machine is asleep, the site stays up in lite mode, serving a Postgres full-text fallback.
Storefront
Next.js on Vercel
Catalog & accounts
Postgres (Neon)
Search engine
Elasticsearch on a self-hosted machine
Circuit breaker
Guards the search engine; opens after repeated failures
Search is degraded but working: plain keyword results from Postgres, without facets, synonyms or semantic ranking. Back to the shop
Bring your own search engine
Clone the repo, run the search service, and expose it with one command: pnpm -F @nordhem/search tunnel. Paste the printed https URL and the shared password below to drive this live site from your machine. It only affects your own browser session.