New Website!
Bella | Jan. 1, 2025, 9:45 p.m.
Update BlogAfter a month or so rewriting this site (took wayyyy too long ik), the new site is officially live!!!
So whats changed? Frontend wise it's pretty damn similar but backend wise there are quite a few significant improvements. It still uses Django but a massive change is CSS is now **all** tailwind. The CSS before was a MESS, (I suck at CSS tbh) and using tailwind makes easier and more efficient.
The site is also hosted more 'proper' now, I still use fly.io but previously I only used 1 machine and 1 volume for static, database and media. This is horribly incorrect and not safe, as data can just go poof! Now I have 2 machines, running constantly with 2 volumes running LiteFS to manage the database, this ensures there is a backup of the db that is kept in parity (at least to my basic understanding). Static files are now just hosted on the fly.io machine because that's all you need and its the more proper, easier method to do so. That leaves us with just media now, media is now stored on a tigris S3 bucket, which tbf I don't understand much about that but, I know its the right way to do it lol.
Anyway, now I have to replicate over some changelogs and the website should be algd good to go :3