48-Hour Field Notes: I Moved a Nightly Job Onto a Free Server and Timed What the Cold Boot Ate

The job had been running fine on my laptop for three weeks, which is exactly the kind of evidence that means nothing at all. The moment I moved it onto a host I did not own, every assumption I had made about disks, clocks, and restarts turned into a question I had to answer with a probe instead of…

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1. 2026-11-09 09:40 · DEV Community — AI
   48-Hour Field Notes: My Free Server Kept Running — My Lease Expired Mid-Completion
2. 2026-11-09 03:30 · DEV Community — AI
   48-Hour Field Notes: Every Record Parsed Cleanly and the Reconciliation Was Off by a Cent
3. 2026-11-08 20:17 · DEV Community — AI
   48-Hour Field Notes: I Moved a Nightly Job Onto a Free Server and Timed What the Cold Boot Ate