Where do your agents run when the laptop closes? 4 hosting options compared
michaelTM_ai · reddit · 2026-11-08
A developer running agents on recurring schedules breaks down four hosting setups from lightest to heaviest: keeping a laptop awake (caffeinate, pmset disablesleep) — zero setup but fragile; a home Mac mini with Tailscale + SSH + tmux and per-agent git worktrees — cheap and solid but you own power cuts and updates; a VPS — always on but you're the sysadmin for secrets, logins and 3am cron failures; and cloud agent computers like spiritt.ai (author discloses affiliation), where each agent gets its own machine with scheduled runs, automatic retries and support for Claude Code/Codex. The underrated cost of options 2-3, he argues, is silent failures: the run that broke Tuesday and gets noticed Friday.
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