// Hacker Noon · 12 May 2026

Lessons From Running an OpenClaw Agent in Production for 30 Days

30 days of running one AI agent on a $24/mo droplet. Total cost $36.83. Three failures: an OOM, a systemd start-limit-hit, and a file descriptor leak. The agent was the easy part. The unit file, retry code, and FD limits were what decided whether it ran for 30 days or 3.

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