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Maybe ipv6 DNS issues:
I'm not completely up to speed on ipv6 stuff but I can't get that AAAA address to resolve. If it is a valid address you may be running services only on ipv4 and the VPN could be using an ipv6 address where no programs are listening... I think?
Also if you run the whole host you may want to see if you need all of these services available or can block incoming connections to them.
It was IP6 issues!
My hosting provider had not provided the IP6 address, so I didn't input it to the DNS records. After a month of back and forth they finally coughed up this information, and I've added it to the records, and everything works.
I've no idea why they didn't give it to me in the first place!
It's not immediately a DNS issue. Usually if there's no response within less then a second, then a browser will skip IPv6 and use IPv4 (Happy Eyeballs). But in this case the server responds with an SSL error over IPv6.