What do you need in a backend portfolio?

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Portfolio

Good day. There was a general mishap. When I moved, the hard drives fell out of my hands and now only for repairs, but until they find a donor for my old people, it’s easier to do everything from scratch.
Actually, since the second year, I have been closely engaged in back-end development in php. Freelance for a long time. Wrote crm-ki, tools, business software, etc., including websites from scratch. Now I don’t know what to put in my portfolio so that orders go at least somehow. The whole stupidity is that I had a separate site with works, neither on github, nor on freelance did not have an account where I could make a backup. Yes, yes, he was very stupid. Those hard ones had all the data on profiles and other things, so now I'm starting from a strict zero.
Actually, I repeat the question, what does a backend need in a portfolio?
* - stupid rule on hosting. they say you don’t go to your personal account for a month - "tell the site goodbye"
- I'm sorry - it was sealed

Answer 1

Actually, I repeat the question, what does a backend need in a portfolio?

link to github, where there is an example of your code. And "better" is better than "more". So I see no problem in creating a profile and throwing the code there.
How is it that everything is on one hdd? Did you only do it for yourself? Are there other sites? What is the problem with getting the ftp code?
stupid idea not to have your own vds for backend developer
How did you plan to make a freelance backup?

Answer 2

Actually, I repeat the question, what does a backend need in a portfolio?

Well, you yourself answered your own question - you need exactly what you had before. No more.

Freelance for a long time. Wrote crm-ki, tools, business software, etc., including websites from scratch.

I don’t want to offend you in any way, but, even in shaggy times, probably 15 years ago, when there was not even a version of yii 1.0, we already used SVN, and 10 years ago we started using Mercurial / Hg, and then we moved to Git... Why am I all this... It is possible to write some kind of worthwhile project, in modern realities of the last 5-10 years (at least), without using a version control system - in two main cases:
1. Author a damn genius of code, and he immediately writes the code correctly, while doing backups, deploys, etc. standard operations "by hand"
2. Projects are so miserable that for their development / support / deployment - a version control system is not needed
In the first case, it will be enough for you to recreate only 1 project, any, and this will be more than enough for your portfolio. In the second case, taking into account such a global experience, it is better to write projects following the example of those that have already been (or at least 1-2 of your "best" creations), because it was they who helped you "freelance for a long time."