Democratizing The Internet (One Node At A Time)
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 …