Sites that buckle under traffic spikes
A local story catches attention, everyone shares the link, and your low cost hosting or overloaded CMS starts throwing errors.
Activist sites that stay up when things get noisy
If you are pushing for change, challenging decisions, or organising people around a problem, your website cannot fall over the first time someone gets annoyed.
I look after the infrastructure, you look after the cause. Neutral, technical support for activists who want stable sites, clear logs, and protection that fits the way real hostility works.
Small scale activism
Local pressure and scrutiny
Cloudflare hardening
Evidence grade logs
Lawful fingerprinting
For a wider overview of public interest work, see Advocacy, campaign, and public interest sites.
Who this fits
This is for activists whose work might annoy people with more money, power, or lawyers than you.
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Local planning and development campaigns
Residents trying to challenge planning decisions, infrastructure projects, or environmental impact in their area.
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Peer led and survivor led groups
People with lived experience documenting harm from services, providers, or institutions in a careful, evidence based way.
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System reform projects
Campaigns that document patterns over time and use FOI, SAR, and case evidence to argue for change.
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Issue focused coalitions
Loose networks that need a central, stable site while the membership and social channels shift around it.
If your work is lawful, serious, and likely to draw complaints or quiet monitoring, we are in the right territory.
The problems activists keep running into
Most activist sites are fragile, improvised, or tied to platforms that are not on your side.
Quiet attention from people you did not invite
Contractors, law firms, or institutional IT teams test your site, copy entire pages, or scrape content, with no clear trail for you to point at.
Admin panels that are one mistake away from disaster
Password reuse, forgotten plugins, and old logins leave activist sites open to compromise, even when the team is careful in other parts of their life.
Hosting and agencies that panic easily
A complaint lands, the host wants a quiet life, and you find yourself offline or under pressure with no clear process or evidence trail.
No real logs when it matters
Screenshots and basic analytics cannot show patterns. When you need to demonstrate pressure or monitoring, you are left guessing.
Unclear boundaries with helpers
Volunteers or agencies drift into decision making on content, which blurs accountability and makes legal risk harder to manage.
This offer is designed to remove as much of that fragility as possible, with static builds, Cloudflare, and evidence grade logs.
How I support activist sites in practice
The aim is simple. Your site should be boring from a technical point of view, even when the politics around it are not.
- Static builds, hosted safely away from the people who are likely to complain about you. See Secure static sites.
- Cloudflare configured for activist realities, not just generic bot scores or default rules.
- Lawful fingerprinting so you can see repeat devices and evasive patterns across IP changes. See Fingerprinting and Edge Tracker.
- Evidence grade logs with clear timelines you can use in complaints, trustee reports, or public write ups. See Evidence grade logging once live.
- Email and DNS set up properly so your replies to officials, journalists, or supporters do not disappear into spam.
Why static first suits activism
Activist sites do not need to be complicated to be effective. A clean, static site served through Cloudflare removes databases and admin panels from the firing line, which makes you much harder to break or bully offline.
You can still publish updates quickly, run basic forms, and link out to social channels. You just do it on a foundation that behaves the same on a quiet Tuesday as it does when a story explodes.
If you already have a site, I can often keep the look and content while moving the foundations to something safer.
Assume somebody is watching, build from there
If your work challenges power, it will be looked at by people who do not wish you well.
That could be a bored contractor scrolling around a council office, a law firm checking your claims, or a private company worried about their reputation. I design logging and fingerprinting with that reality in mind.
The goal is not paranoia. It is the ability to say, calmly and with evidence, what actually happened.
For a wider explanation of monitoring and patterns, see the main public interest page section on Expected monitoring.
Boundaries for activist work
These limits keep the roles clear. You handle content and allegations, Ki-Ki handles infrastructure.
- Ki-Ki provides technical services only. I do not act as a publisher, editor, investigator, or legal adviser for your campaign.
- I do not draft, upload, or assist with naming and shaming pieces, allegation pages about identifiable people, or reputational campaigns. If you publish that material, it is your choice and responsibility.
- Any light SEO or onboarding copy I help with is neutral, factual, and only goes live after your written approval.
- You must not suggest that Ki-Ki endorses your campaign, your targets, or your views.
- If your project crosses into unlawful territory, incitement, or serious unresolved risk, I will say no or terminate the work.
The full position is set out in the Neutral infrastructure policy. Your use of Ki-Ki is also governed by the Terms of use and Privacy policy.
Questions activists usually ask
Can you help us write our campaign pages?
I can help with neutral, factual onboarding copy if needed, for example a home page summary or basic navigation text. I do not write allegation content or arguments for your cause. That needs to be yours.
Will you ever censor or edit our content?
No, content decisions are yours. The only time I step back is where something appears unlawful or carries serious unmanaged risk. In that case I will set out my concerns and, if needed, end the technical relationship.
How do you charge for activist work?
Pricing is straightforward. A fixed build fee for the site and Cloudflare set up, plus an optional retainer if you want ongoing monitoring or rule changes. If you are a very small group with limited means, say so in your first email and I will be honest about what I can do.
Will fingerprinting identify real people?
No. It identifies devices and sessions on your own site so that patterns and repeat actors are visible, including those who change IPs. It does not tell you who somebody is in the real world.
Can you help if we are already under pressure?
Often, yes. I can stabilise the site, move you to a safer foundation, and start logging properly. I cannot undo past technical decisions or give you retrospective legal advice, but we can stop things getting worse.
What if we are not sure whether our work counts as activism?
Send a short outline of what you are doing, what worries you, and how public it is. I will tell you plainly whether this route makes sense or whether a standard SME style build is a better fit.
Start the conversation
Outline your campaign, where the pressure is likely to come from, and what you already have in place. I will tell you plainly whether I am the right fit and what a realistic first step looks like.