diff --git a/backfiller/backfiller/main.py b/backfiller/backfiller/main.py
index 9bdf41e..4598912 100644
--- a/backfiller/backfiller/main.py
+++ b/backfiller/backfiller/main.py
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 
 	NODE_INTERVAL = 300 #seconds between updating list of nodes
 
-	def __init__(self, base_dir, stream, variants, static_nodes=[], start=None, run_once=False, node_file=None, node_database=None):
+	def __init__(self, base_dir, stream, variants, static_nodes=[], start=None,
+			run_once=False, node_file=None, node_database=None, localhost=None):
 		"""Constructor for BackfillerManager.
 		Creates a manager for a given stream with specified variants. If
 		static_nodes is None, manager"""
@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 		self.run_once = run_once
 		self.node_file = node_file
 		self.node_database = node_database
+		self.localhost = localhost
 		self.stopping = gevent.event.Event()
 		self.logger = logging.getLogger("BackfillerManager({})".format(stream))
 		self.workers = {} # {node url: worker}
@@ -228,6 +230,9 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 			self.logger.info('Fetching list of nodes from {}'.format(self.node_database))
 			# query the database
 	
+		if self.localhost is not None:
+			nodes = [node for node in nodes if self.localhost not in node]
+
 		return nodes
 
 class BackfillerWorker(object):
@@ -336,7 +341,7 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 							
 def main(base_dir='.', streams='', variants='', metrics_port=8002,
 	static_nodes='', backdoor_port=0, start=None, run_once=False,
-	node_file=None, node_database=None):
+	node_file=None, node_database=None, localhost=None):
 	"""Backfiller service."""
 
 	streams = streams.split(',') if variants else []
@@ -359,7 +364,7 @@ def main(base_dir='.', streams='', variants='', metrics_port=8002,
 	workers = []
 	for stream in streams:
 		logging.info('Starting backfilling {} with {} as variants to {}'.format(stream, ', '.join(variants), base_dir))
-		manager = BackfillerManager(base_dir, stream, variants, static_nodes, start, run_once, node_file, node_database)
+		manager = BackfillerManager(base_dir, stream, variants, static_nodes, start, run_once, node_file, node_database, localhost)
 		managers.append(manager)
 		workers.append(gevent.spawn(manager.run))