About a month ago I was notified by Linode that my server had been compromised and was initiating a DDoS attack out to the internet. Of course they don't take things like that lightly so the server was suspended, and after many hours of diagnosing and trying to find the cause, I found nothing :sad_face:.
So I did the responsible thing and downloaded the things I absolutely needed, and destroyed the server instance. That of course meant I lost a lot of stuff, one being my instance of Strapi.
Strapi was my main content source for the dynamic content on the site, but thankfully I was already hard at work at replacing it anyways as i wasn't happy with it and decided to spin up my own app (more on that later).
What's the Good News then?
Well the good news is that because i had already been hard at work implementing my new tech stack including the blog posts, i was able to start moving things over to the new stack almost immediately, however the process of manually importing the data has been slow as it wasn't as straightforward as i was hoping to import the data into the new, seeing as i went from MongoDB to Postgres, so things are still coming back online as i code more.
So, Whats the bad news?
Well the bad news is that all the models, galleries, and images aren't here. They'll take time to get back online, a major bummer but with the new changes in he backend I'm hoping this will lead to an even better experience in the long run. I'm no longer limited by Strapi's media library plugin, and using Cloudinary I'm able to handle things at a much more granular level than before, which should lead to an even better performing image gallery. Basically I wanted to pop in and at least say wassup, and let you know whats up, more details will be following, lots of cool articles i want to write about.