Let’s embark on a journey to re-architect this website to something that is more resilient. Currently, the entire website runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet.

Backups are handled through a Bash script that zips up the application directory, dumps the DB, and tars up the output.

This could be better. Let’s make this better. As the website gets re-architected, I’ll provide diagrams and links to the code & documentation leveraged.