Democratizing The Internet (One Node At A Time)

Tags: DevOps , Homelab , Kubernetes

Published Oct. 20, 2025, 7:03 p.m. by wielandtech

After this morning’s AWS outage, which took down roughly 30% of the global Internet, I wanted to share how I’m keeping my website resilient and independent from the big cloud providers.

What started as a simple need to add a Redis cache to my Django website has turned into a bare-metal, three-node Kubernetes homelab. It now hosts my applications and services securely, efficiently, and completely under my control. The goal is simple: reduce dependence on centralized cloud platforms and take one small step toward democratizing the Internet.

From an Idea to a Self-Hosted Platform

Over the past six months, I’ve been steadily learning and building. The process has involved everything from hardware setup to cluster automation. This past weekend marked a big milestone: I deployed an NGINX reverse proxy on my VPS to forward public …

Photo Gallery

Tags: Django , Photography , Python , DevOps

Published April 22, 2025, 12:36 a.m. by wielandtech

After hosting an open text box on the internet for the past couple of weeks, I've decided to lock /blog like, share, and comment functionality befind authorization. To access any of these features, please create an account or sign-in using an existing Facebook or Google account.

Once you do so, check out the new /images Photography Gallery. Right now it's mostly just pictures of my dog, but feel free to upload a photo of your own.

Behind the scenes of this latest update, I've migrated this site from the cPanel shared hosting I'd been using for the past several years to an unmanaged VPS. I apologize for any 502s you might've encountered over the weekend. What started as a quest to run my own instance of Redis turned into me running my own instances of everything.