The @Namecheap outage highlights a really important issue that a lot of us don't think of: For risk management purposes, you should not be relying on one company as your Registrar, DNS, and web host. Spread it out amongst 3 companies for less risk. You should have one company for your domain registrar. You should have another company hosting your DNS. You should have a third company for your web host. Today, I'm hearing multiple people say that because of the NC outage everything is down. They're losing business because of it. Well, that was preventable. If you can't log into your domain registrar to update the DNS, then that was preventable: If you used @Cloudflare, for example, for DNS, then you could simply log into CF and point the DNS to another web host and your site or service would be back up and running in minutes. I know it's sometimes "easier" to just pay one company for domain registration, DNS, and web hosting. But nowadays that's not advisable. If your business relies on your website and email being available 24/7, reduce your risk. Pay 3 different companies rather than just the one.