The 3 AM Job That Never Ran: Taming Sleep Mode on a Free Server
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At 3:00 AM, the log file should have shown a new entry, but it did not. The next night, the same silence appeared again. I had scheduled an AI-powered summary job to run on a free server, and after a few hours of inactivity, the server had quietly gone to sleep, taking my cron job with it. This is…
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- 2026-08-24 19:10 · DEV Community — AI
The 3 AM Job That Never Ran: Taming Sleep Mode on a Free Server