I was on a beach in Thailand when my phone buzzed. Not a trade alert. A “bot stopped” notification. Third time that week. I’d spent months tweaking my strategy, optimizing parameters, backtesting until my eyes bled. None of that mattered because the damn thing kept dying at 3 AM. By the time I woke up, … Read more
I’ll never forget staring at my screen at 3 AM, watching a green candle turn red because my laptop decided to hibernate. The setup had seemed fine earlier that day. Python script running, API keys configured, test trade successful. I went to bed feeling like a genius. Woke up feeling like an idiot. The bot … Read more
My internet went out at 2:47 AM last Tuesday. I know the exact time because I checked my logs the next morning. My grid bot had been running perfectly for three weeks straight. Then Comcast decided to “perform maintenance” in my neighborhood. The bot stopped. BTC dropped 2% right after. My bot should have bought … Read more
I learned this the hard way. Last year I signed up for a cheap VPS. Like, really cheap. $2.50/month from some provider I’d never heard of. Thought I was being smart, saving money. Two weeks later my bot stopped during a massive dip. The server had crashed. By the time I woke up and fixed … Read more
I remember the exact moment I almost lost $3,000 because my laptop decided to restart for updates at 3 AM. My trading bot was running a grid strategy on Binance Futures. When I woke up and saw the red numbers, I wanted to throw my MacBook out the window. That was the day I stopped … Read more
If you’re trying to run a crypto trading bot 24/7, you’ve probably already noticed one problem — your personal computer isn’t reliable enough. It shuts down, loses internet connection, or simply can’t stay online all the time. That’s exactly where a VPS becomes useful. A VPS (Virtual Private Server) allows your trading bot to run … Read more