A 30-year independent web network run by Paul Walhus from Austin, Texas. 114 live sites across 120 domains — real estate, fan archives, coworking, AI, sustainability, and a dozen more verticals — all on one server, all under one operator, all built and shipped by hand.
No agency. No round of capital. No team. Just one operator, a domain registrar's email, and thirty years of figuring out what to do next.
It began in 1996 with spring.com — one of Austin's first online communities, running on a BBS in a spare room. Then spring.net. Then austinspring.com. A Colin Firth fan site that became one of the longest-running on the web. A Jane Austen archive that's still serving readers two decades later. Coworking directories. Real estate niches. AI explainers. Sustainability research.
Over three decades, WholeTech has built and maintained more than a hundred sites. In March 2026, the entire network was rebuilt — 114 live sites in days, all with modern design, SSL, structured data, sitemaps, cross-links, and email capture. On April 1, 2026, the network went live in full: every domain, every certificate, every site, all in one push.
It runs on a single server. It's operated by one person. That's the whole tech.
Eleven category clusters. Each one a focused vertical, each one cross-linked into the larger network. Click through to the dedicated landing for each cluster.
Tiny home villages, off-grid living, earth-friendly construction, and the small-home movement.
Hands-on AI guides, Claude/Anthropic deep-dives, video-switcher gear, networking how-tos.
Sports, music, festivals, events, food, neighborhoods — Austin coverage that doesn't read like a tourist brochure.
Hot Springs, Austin, regional coworking maps and small-business space discovery tools.
Hot Springs micro-sites, retire-here playbooks, lake homes, luxury, Airbnb operator gear, land assembly.
Long-running fan sites, awards coverage, TV/film criticism, and a Colin Firth archive older than YouTube.
Jane Austen scholarship, regional art collections, poetry, and a quiet love for the long-form.
Solar, water, earth-modeling, and the unromantic engineering of staying livable on this planet.
Local-policy notes, voter research, civic infrastructure — slow journalism for towns nobody covers.
Paul's own working docs, archives, and operations dashboards — most behind basic auth.
Selected client builds — independent operators and small businesses who wanted real sites, not page-builders.
Searchable, sortable, color-coded by vertical. Every domain, every status, every cross-link.
A network isn't a museum. Three active project lines as of May 2026 — each one a real parcel, a real audience, a real shipping deadline.
A multi-parcel small-home village forming on Clover Rd. Anchor compound clearing $12K+/month, adjacent parcel 183 Clover acquiring through owner financing. The first replication of a corridor-scale playbook.
land.wholetech.comThe umbrella site for the small-home village movement: funding plan, active projects, transparent budget, six giving tiers, six funding streams.
smallhomevillages.comUT burnt orange editorial design, live sports coverage, cultural depth. The frontend-design refresh confirmed brilliant.
austintexasfans.comThe three loops every WholeTech site runs through, every week, by one set of hands.
Every site in the network is hand-crafted HTML/CSS/JS — no WordPress sprawl, no template lock-in, no plugin tax. Distinct design language per vertical.
The entire network lives on a single DigitalOcean droplet: nginx, Let's Encrypt automation, structured backup chain to B2, GitHub, Drive, and offline NAS.
Content moves continuously. Real estate data pipelines, MLS pulls, ACTRIS scraping, BCAD parcel imports — the network is a data system as much as a publishing one.
Compressed to the load-bearing moments. The unimportant years happened too — those just aren't on this page.
The first community lived on a dial-up BBS in a spare room. By 1998 it became spring.net. By 2001, austinspring.com — built before "Austin tech" was a brand.
A Colin Firth fan site that's still running. A Jane Austen archive still cited in academic blogs. The lesson: the web rewards the operators who don't quit.
Coworking directories. Hot Springs micro-sites. The Cedar Creek operating compound. A network of focused verticals, each with its own audience.
March 2026: full rebuild of the network — 114 sites, modern SSL, structured data, cross-links. April 1, 2026: the network went live in full. AI editing pipeline standard, Claude integrated, every site uniform-quality.
Three of the longest-running sites in the network now route through curated Amazon Associate storefronts. Every pick is hand-selected; every link supports the operator.
The six novels, every film adaptation, annotated editions, biographies, and gifts — the complete Janeite library.
Shop AustenPride & Prejudice 1995, The King's Speech, Operation Mincemeat — films, soundtracks, biographies, and Bridget Jones box sets.
Shop FirthSmart locks, hotel-grade linens, noise monitors, turnover supplies — the equipment serious Airbnb operators actually buy. 26 curated picks.
Shop GearAs an Amazon Associate, the network earns from qualifying purchases.
Independent web work, niche-site builds, real-estate data pipelines, content-network strategy, AI-assisted editorial. Email is the channel.