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My network doesn't often go down, but when it does, it's always DNS (or the power went out).
My wife: accidentially unplugs homeservers (with PiHole running)
Also my wife: the internet is down?!
This (almost) exact scenario is why I need to move my PiHole instance off my Proxmox box and onto a dedicated appliance.
In this case, she just wanted to make sure that everything is off and without current before the vacation and since I told her to not trip that one breaker, she unplugged some seemingly unrelated cables and just unplugged the wrong one