Infrastructure for public interest work in Teesside
Teesside carries a mix of heavy industry, regeneration plans, long term health impacts, and decisions that rarely read the leaflets they land on. When people finally start laying that history out online, the site cannot afford to fall over.
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 councils, contractors, combined authorities, and agencies, as well as residents in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool, and the surrounding towns.
Who this fits across Teesside
The projects that need serious infrastructure here are usually the ones keeping records, not the ones sat in the glossy reports.
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Community and tenants groups
Resident led projects in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool, Billingham, and the estates that track housing, antisocial behaviour, regeneration schemes, and council decisions over time.
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Watchdog and scrutiny projects
People documenting how Tees Valley combined authority decisions, local councils, and contractors handle land, money, and services along the river and across the area.
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Environment and health campaigns
Groups following pollution, industrial impacts, river and coastal issues, and long term health concerns that are relevant far beyond one town boundary.
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Independent media and blogs
Citizen journalists and issue focused blogs covering Teesside, from town centres to estates and industrial sites, that expect their work to travel outside the patch once people see it.
If your work is lawful, serious, and likely to grow beyond private Facebook groups or word of mouth, it belongs here even if your team is small.
What I actually do for Teesside 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 far outside Teesside.
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 pay a cost.
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Evidence grade logging
Edge logs and exports that show what hit your site, when, and how it behaved. Structured so they can sit inside 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, combined authority teams, contractors, and firms that do not want to be obvious in the logs.
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, partner groups, media, and oversight bodies instead of dying in spam when you escalate something serious.
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Governance checks that match reality
Practical fixes to privacy notices, cookie wording, and data handling descriptions so they describe what your infrastructure actually does rather than what a generic template assumed on a different continent.
Local realities across Teesside
Teesside is often talked about as a project, a zone, or a scheme. People who actually live there deal with the outcomes.
Projects here often cover industrial change, land deals, regeneration, environmental impacts, health, housing, policing, and transport, mapped onto specific estates, streets, and stretches of river. Once someone starts presenting those patterns in one place, the audience quickly grows beyond local readers.
A static site behind Cloudflare gives you a base that behaves as if that wider attention was always expected, instead of an afterthought.
How I build for that context
- Infrastructure that assumes scrutiny from combined authorities, councils, contractors, and agencies, as well as residents.
- Separation between content and technical work so you keep full editorial control of what is published.
- Logging and fingerprinting that make repeat actors visible, even when tools and IPs keep moving around.
- Documentation that trustees, volunteers, and organisers can 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 Teesside projects usually ask
Do you only work with established charities on Teesside?
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 Teesside, including Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool, Billingham, and surrounding areas, 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 Teesside focused conversation
If your project is based on Teesside 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.