Website is down - VM host issues

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UPDATE: 6 hours and 8 minutes of downtime. All three sites are back up and running. 


For once, the website is down not because of me or my 'code', but it seems that the VM host is down.

How do I know? Because all three websites are down.
The main site, tbg.airframes runs on Node-RED, that one is on me. Thats the dumpster fire we all know and love - 200 ish users per day.

tbgmap.airframes is tar1090, nothing to do with Node-RED at all, and it's a Docker container. About 30 people per day use that one.

tbgacarshub.airframes is JavaScript, again, nothing to do with tar1090 or Node-RED and again, it's a Docker container. About 5 people per day hit that one up (5 makes me a bit sad, but eh).

For all three to be down, it means that the host is down.

The final 'proof' is that I can't shell (Linux terminal session) into the virtual machine (VM).

It's no secret that I am hosted by Contabo. 
They went down a few months back for about 2 frustrating days.
Why frustrating? Because their status page: https://contabo-status.com/ says that nothing is wrong.
Guess what? Exact same situation now... "Nothing is wrong - it's not our fault, but yeah, sure looks like your VM is down - sucks to be you"

I use uptimeRobot to monitor my sites.


It's how I knew they went down at 2:17am. I happen to be awake - don't ask....

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