My goal last year was to rank in the top 100 of my country.

I’m proud to say I’m nowhere near it. There’s others who have taken the challenge, and I’m all for it!

I published it to the internet and the next day, I couldn’t ssh into the server anymore with my user account and something was off.

Tried root + password, also failed.

Immediately facepalmed because the password was the generic 8 characters and there was no fail2ban to stop guessing.