For The Records

I’d been wanting to build this site for a while and finally decided to go for it using Astro on the front-end and Payload as the CMS. All parts of this project, including the database, live on a DigitalOcean droplet. I decided to setup the droplet from scratch which meant doing everything from installing & configuring NGINX and Node.js, to setting up Postgres and adding a basic firewall. It was definitely a learning experience and I’m sure it’s not perfect but HEY, it works! 🤷🏻‍♂️

The site is automatically built & deployed on push to the repo via Buddy CI.