My site went down for a few hours yesterday and my users knew before me

It happened to me. My site — bashsnippets.xyz — had been down for six hours before I knew about it. I found out because a reader emailed me. Not because I checked. Not because I had monitoring. Because someone else had to tell me. That's the kind of thing that sits with you. The fix took 20 minutes to build. Here's exactly what I wrote and why every piece of it matters. The problem with checking manually The natural instinct is to just open a browser and load the page. But that has two failure m