48 Hours of Cold Starts: Field Notes From a Free Server That Kept Dozing Off
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Every tutorial tells you to start with a free server and a free model. But what happens between requests, when nobody is watching and the instance quietly goes to sleep? I spent 48 hours logging every wake-up, and the pattern changed how I budget latency for small AI tools. These are the field note…
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- 2026-08-27 13:18 · DEV Community — AI
48 Hours of Cold Starts: Field Notes From a Free Server That Kept Dozing Off