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title: "💭 paynepride dot com outage on vacation"
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oof, outage on the homelab during vacation, brutal.  I can think of a couple of similar solutions to what <a href="https://pype.dev" class="mention" data-name="Pype.dev | Nic Payne" data-bio="A quiet place for thoughts, learnings, and explorations by Nic Payne." data-avatar="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/pype.dev/main/pages/media/og-02.png" data-handle="@pype">@pype</a> has done to tailscale in, but I'm not sure that I could do this remotely.  On one hand I'm so glad that cloudflared just takes care of certs on the other hand this really brings a gap in my understanding of what the heck I would do if it were broken.

An untested DR plan is not a DR plan.

An untested backup does not exist.

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