Built a few scripts that scrape data, hit APIs and send me reports on a schedule. Genuinely useful, saves me hours every week.
But keeping them running 24/7 is its own full time job. VPS is cheap but managing it is not simple. Every update means SSH, file transfer, restarting processes, hoping nothing breaks.
How are you running your automations in the background without it becoming a whole infrastructure project?
Spent a weekend getting my script to actually work. Felt amazing. Then tried to get it running 24/7 on a VPS and spent 3 more days on dependency errors, broken environments and random crashes.
Is there a simpler way to just... run a Python script forever without becoming a Linux expert? Feels like the coding part is now easy with AI but the "keep it alive" part is still a nightmare.
How do you guys handle this?
Using Claude and ChatGPT I can put together working scripts and bots that actually do what I want. Zero coding background.
But the moment I try to deploy them somewhere to run 24/7 I hit a wall. VPS setup, SSH, Linux commands, dependency installs — it's like a completely different and unfriendly world.
Is there anything out there built for people like us? Or are we all just suffering through VPS tutorials on YouTube?
I built a simple telegram bot with AI help, got it perfectly working on my machine, then spent two days dealing with SSH, dependency errors, and random crashes just to keep it alive on a VPS.
Felt like the actual bot took 2 hours in development but its deployment took 2 days dealing with those crappy slow VPS servers.
Curious how you guys handle it. Do you deal with the same pain or there is a simpler setup which I am missing out.