[basilgohar]

Thankfully all my nodes are back online and accessible via SSH but there are currently secondary effects due to the length of the outage that I am dealing with, such as my DNS server being deregistered with Namecheap from serving as a personal DNS server (their name for that feature). The consequence of this is also that my email is not currently work, since that affects the hostname the email server operates under serving multiple other domains. I am still grateful that it seems I suffered no data loss, thank God!

Also, I've taken it upon myself to PROPERLY implement a better, redundant backup strategy (since I was mainly relying on Linode's service, but now I feel I should go beyond that). I am using restic backing-up to a Backblaze bucket via the S3 interface. Nice thing is I can put all hosts into the same bucket and restic will organize by host but still full deduplication support. Not sure how much that'll net me but it's nice to have.

[ajdude]

I'm in the exact same boat- mail server hosted on linode with namecheap as my registrar. I couldn't figure out why my DNS stopped working despite my linode finally coming back up, and... now I know where to look.

[mnordhoff]

Wait, Namecheap deactivates your domain name if you have a temporary DNS outage?

[basilgohar]

It seems it did not, but my glue records are no longer propagating. Still debugging until now.