Probably not anymore. Or probably "works on my machine"

It's live. There are also services like this one: https://isitdownorjust.me/

Dumn! Sticky fingers of FSB!

Or it's the owner of the hosting. In any case, I'd say having a personal VPN server or a few is a must nowadays.

btw -- is there some good Clojure-based VPN?

...why? Why would it need to be Clojure-related? I'd just go for OpenVPN - there are plenty of resources about it, including numerous single-click deployment scripts.