Occasional issue I can't wrap my head around

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@OliverF

Bind that didn’t work anymore, which led to all the websites I host being taken offline. When I noticed, it had been a few hours already.

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Services can be monitored and alerts can be issued via Webmin -> Others -> System and Server Status. I am currently able to offer for free (via a third party service which I use) a way for Virtualmin admins to be alerted via SMS and email when any service on their server is down. Services which can be monitored include Apache, Dovecot and Postfix. The monitoring is done remotely, so no software or agent needs to be installed on the Virtualmin server; all that is needed for monitoring to be enab…

I don’t have an answer to your question about why services fail occasionally, but a timely alert will help you offer better uptime.