Merge pull request 'feat: feb 2023 monthly report and limit deployment to master branch' (#18) from 02-23-monthly-report into master

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     when:
       event: [ push, pull_request, tag, deployment ]
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     commands:
     - curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash - &&\
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content/blog/02-23-monthly-report/index.md

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+---
+title: "February, 2023: Monthly Report"
+description: "Gusted and I secured funding from NLnet to work on mCaptcha in 2023, we suffered an outage from 15 January to February 6, polyfill benchmarking support in mCaptcha"
+lead: "We are mCaptcha. We build kickass CAPTCHA systems that give (DDoS) attackers a run for their money. And we do all of this without tracking your users. Oh and did I mention our UX is great?"
+date: 2023-03-08
+lastmod: 2023-03-08
+draft: false
+weight: 50
+images: ["icon.png"]
+contributors: ["Aravinth Manivannan"]
+---
+
+Hello and welcome to the (August 2022 to) February, 2023 monthly report!
+
+## TL;DR
+
+_[Gusted](https://gusted.xyz) and I secured funding from NLnet to work
+on mCaptcha in 2023, we suffered an outage from 15 January to February
+6, polyfill benchmarking support in mCaptcha_
+
+## We have funding!
+
+[Gusted](https://gusted.xyz) and I applied and secured funding through
+2023 development is funded through the [NGI0
+Entrust](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) Fund, via [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl).
+
+The full list of tasks that we'll be working on in the period is is
+available
+[here](https://git.batsense.net/mCaptcha/2023-NLnet/projects/6).
+
+## Infrastructure outage: 15 January, 2023 to February 6, 2023
+
+A hard disk on of the servers hosting mCaptcha infrastructure failed,
+which caused the outage. Fixing the hard disk lead to additional
+problems, the fan on that server was failing and we couldn't get spares
+sooner.
+
+We had current backups, so there was no data loss.
+
+Going forward, we are planning to create Infrastructure-as-Code to fully
+restore all mCaptcha infrastructure, so that in the even of an outage,
+we could restore our infrastructure in much shorter duration.
+
+## mCaptcha/survey now includes polyfill benchmarking
+
+mCaptcha/survey runs benchmarks with mCaptcha's PoW algorithm to collect
+statistics on how mCaptcha performs on various browsers and devices. So
+far, we've only been running benchmarks with the WebAssembly
+implementation. This [pull request](https://github.com/mCaptcha/survey/pull/14) added support for running benchmarks
+with the JavaScript polyfill implementation on browsers without
+WebAssembly support.