Infrastructure for public interest work in Northumberland
Northumberland is mostly treated as empty space until someone starts documenting what is actually happening in its towns, villages, and services. Once that work is visible, the audience is rarely small.
I build and protect the sites behind that kind of work. Static builds, Cloudflare setups, lawful fingerprinting, and evidence grade logging, tuned for projects that sit in rural and coastal settings but face attention from large organisations.
Who this fits in Northumberland
The people who need solid infrastructure here are usually the ones logging decisions, treatment, and patterns across a large patch of map with very little local support.
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Rural advocacy and support projects
Groups in and around places like Hexham, Alnwick, Morpeth, and Berwick upon Tweed that support residents who are a long drive away from most services.
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Community and watchdog sites
Projects tracking decisions by the county council, housing providers, health services, and contractors across Northumberland, from Ashington and Blyth to the smaller villages.
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Coastal and environment campaigns
Campaigns around the coast, the national park, and industrial sites that need to document environmental and planning issues clearly, for audiences outside the county as much as inside it.
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Independent media and blogs
Small media projects and blogs covering rural inequality, transport, policing, and local decision making that want their site to keep working when national eyes finally arrive.
If your work is lawful, serious, and likely to grow beyond local gossip, it belongs here even if your team is only a handful of people.
What I actually do for Northumberland projects
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Static sites that stay up
Fast static builds served through Cloudflare instead of fragile plugin stacks. Good for projects that might suddenly be linked by journalists, watchdogs, or national campaigns.
See Secure static sites.
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Cloudflare firewall and routing
Firewall rules, bot mitigation, rate limits, and Workers tuned for public interest work. Search engines, accessibility tools, and normal readers are treated as welcome traffic, scraping and hostile automation are treated as something to manage carefully.
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Evidence grade logging
Edge logs and exports that show who hit your site, when, and how it behaved. Structured so they can sit in complaints, internal reviews, and regulator correspondence without needing translation.
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Monitoring aware fingerprinting
Lawful fingerprinting on your own domain so you can see repeat devices and evasive patterns, including quiet interest from councils, contractors, and agencies that do not live anywhere near the villages you serve.
Detail and examples on Fingerprinting and Edge Tracker.
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Email and DNS that behave
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DNS routing tuned so your emails reach residents, partner organisations, media, and oversight bodies instead of dropping into spam when you most need them.
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Governance checks that match reality
Practical fixes to privacy notices, cookie language, and data handling descriptions so they match what your infrastructure actually does, not what a generic template hoped it might do.
Local realities in Northumberland
Northumberland looks quiet on a map. On the ground, people deal with stretched services, long travel times, and decisions made far away in rooms they will never see.
Projects here often cover rural poverty, housing, health access, transport, environment, and the way county level and national decisions actually land in small towns and villages. When someone finally puts those patterns online in one place, the reaction is rarely just local curiosity.
A static site behind Cloudflare gives you a base that behaves as if wider attention was always expected.
How I build for that context
- Infrastructure that assumes scrutiny from outside Northumberland, not just inside it.
- Clear separation between content and technical work so you keep full editorial control of your site.
- Logging and fingerprinting that make repeat actors obvious, even when IPs and tools change over time.
- Documentation that trustees, volunteers, and local organisers can actually follow without a security background.
Boundaries, stated clearly
These limits keep the work defensible for you and for me.
- Ki-Ki provides technical services only. I am not a publisher, editor, investigator, or legal adviser.
- I do not draft, upload, or assist with allegation content about named individuals. If you publish that kind of material, it is your decision and your responsibility.
- Any limited SEO or onboarding copy I prepare is neutral and only goes live after your written approval.
- You must not suggest that Ki-Ki endorses your campaign, your allegations, or your politics.
- If a project crosses into unlawful or high risk territory, I will refuse or terminate the work.
The full position is set out in the Neutral infrastructure policy, alongside the Terms of use and Privacy policy.
Questions Northumberland projects usually ask
Do you only work with established charities in Northumberland?
No. I work with small charities, CICs, informal groups, and individual projects, as long as the work is lawful, serious, and in the public interest.
Can you harden a site we already have?
Often yes. I can place an existing site behind Cloudflare, improve DNS and email, and introduce logging. If the current setup is too fragile, we can plan a move to a static build instead.
Will fingerprinting identify real people by name?
No. It identifies devices and behaviour that hit your site, not named individuals. It is set up as defensive monitoring and aligned with your policies, it is not a tool for personal doxxing.
Do you only work with projects in the larger towns?
No. I work with projects across Northumberland, including Hexham, Alnwick, Morpeth, Ashington, Blyth, Berwick upon Tweed, and smaller villages, as long as the work is serious and in the public interest.
What if the council, a contractor, or an agency disputes what we publish?
I cannot give legal advice, however I can make sure your logs and technical position are clear enough to support conversations with lawyers, regulators, or oversight bodies if you choose to involve them.
Start a Northumberland focused conversation
If your project is based in Northumberland or heavily affects people there, tell me what you are building, what worries you, and what level of attention you expect. I will be honest about whether I am the right fit.