Built by Paul Walhus in Austin, TX. From the spring.com BBS in 1996 to a network of 110 live websites across 104 domains — covering tech, real estate, entertainment, sustainability, coworking, politics, arts, and more. Every site has SSL, structured data, sitemaps, and cross-links. The entire network went live on April 1, 2026.
It started in 1996 with the spring.com BBS — one of Austin's first online communities. Then spring.net. Then austinspring.com. Then a Colin Firth fan site that became one of the longest-running on the web. Then Jane Austen. Then coworking directories. Then real estate. Then robots.
Over three decades, WholeTech has built and maintained over a hundred websites. In March 2026, Paul Walhus partnered with Claude Code (Anthropic's AI coding tool) and rebuilt the entire network in days — 110 live sites, all with modern design, SSL encryption, structured data, sitemaps, cross-links, and email capture. The infrastructure that used to cost hundreds per month now runs on a single $6/month DigitalOcean droplet.
On April 1, 2026, the full network went live. Every domain, every site, every certificate. This is WholeTech.
Every site in the network runs on the same hardened stack.
Let's Encrypt on all 110 sites
Single server, gzip, security headers
sitemap.xml + robots.txt on every domain
Structured data on all full sites
Social preview cards on every page
Contextual links between related sites
Web3Forms signup on network pages
Single DigitalOcean droplet
AI-powered development and deployment
GitHub push → live in 5 minutes
One of Austin's first online communities. The seed of everything.
Jane Austen literary archive. One of the original literary sites on the web.
Creative writing platform. Domain registered 1997.
Colin Firth fan site. One of the longest-running fan sites on the internet.
austinrepeater, austinblogger, austinmayor, austinpads, austinlifestyles, austincast, baylesshigh, walhus.com.
Paul Walhus becomes Twitter's first celebrity at SXSW. Profiled by BuzzFeed, Slate, NYT. @springnet.
texascoworking.com, americancoworking, coworkingcongress, commercialaustin. Paul becomes a coworking industry figure.
60+ domains acquired across tech, sustainability, entertainment, and community verticals.
Paul partners with Anthropic's Claude Code. 20 full websites built in 48 hours. The network takes shape.
110 websites. 104 domains. SSL on every site. Sitemaps, OG tags, Schema.org, cross-links, email capture, auto-deploy. The day everything changed.
110 sites. 11 categories. 30 years of web history. All built and maintained by one person from Austin, Texas.