Infrastructure for public interest work in South Tyneside
South Tyneside has a long memory for how people are treated by councils, housing providers, police, and contractors. When that finally gets written up properly, the website carrying it needs to hold still.
I build and protect the sites behind that work. Static builds, Cloudflare setups, lawful fingerprinting, and evidence grade logging, tuned for projects that expect attention from institutions as well as residents in Jarrow, Hebburn, South Shields, and the Boldons.
Who this fits in South Tyneside
The projects that need serious infrastructure here are usually the ones that keep receipts, not the ones that send glossy newsletters.
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Community and tenants groups
Resident led projects in Jarrow, Hebburn, South Shields, and the Boldons tracking decisions on housing, antisocial behaviour, services, and treatment over time.
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Watchdog and scrutiny projects
People documenting decisions by South Tyneside Council, housing providers, contractors, and regional bodies that affect residents across the borough.
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Advocacy and support work
Peer led and survivor led groups that need a stable site to explain what they do and host information without depending on a social media feed.
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Independent media and blogs
Citizen journalists and issue focused blogs covering the river, town centres, and estates that expect readership beyond South Tyneside when stories start to land.
If your work is lawful, serious, and likely to grow beyond private Facebook posts, it belongs here even if your team is just a few people.
What I actually do for South Tyneside projects
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Static sites that stay up
Fast static builds served through Cloudflare instead of fragile plugin stacks and slow dashboards. Good for projects that might suddenly be linked by journalists, campaigners, or people outside the borough.
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 and accessibility tools are allowed through cleanly, scraping and hostile automation are made to work harder.
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Evidence grade logging
Edge logs and exports that show what hit your site, when, and how it behaved. Structured for use in complaints, internal reviews, and correspondence with regulators or oversight bodies.
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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, outsourced providers, or agencies outside South Tyneside.
Detail and examples on Fingerprinting and Edge Tracker.
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Email and DNS that behave
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DNS configured so your emails reach residents, journalists, partner groups, and oversight bodies instead of dying in spam right when you escalate.
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Governance checks that match reality
Practical fixes to privacy notices, cookie wording, and data handling descriptions so they reflect what your infrastructure actually does rather than what a generic template assumed.
Local realities in South Tyneside
South Tyneside often sits in the shadow of bigger neighbours on paper, while carrying its own share of heavy decisions in practice.
Projects here frequently touch on housing, deprivation, policing, regeneration, health access, and how regional decisions land in specific streets and estates. Once someone starts publishing that history clearly, attention can jump quickly from local to regional and national.
A static site behind Cloudflare gives you infrastructure that behaves as if that attention was always expected.
How I build for that context
- Infrastructure that assumes scrutiny from institutions and contractors, not just neighbours.
- Separation between content and technical work so you keep full editorial control.
- Logging and fingerprinting that make repeat actors obvious, even when IPs or tools change.
- Documentation that trustees, volunteers, and 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 South Tyneside projects usually ask
Do you only work with established charities in South Tyneside?
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 main town centres?
No. I work with projects across South Tyneside, including Jarrow, Hebburn, South Shields, the Boldons, and surrounding estates, 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 South Tyneside focused conversation
If your project is based in South Tyneside 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.