Infrastructure

I just moved my self-hosted OpenClaw from one cloud VM to another. The whole thing — from “let me have a look at what’s running” to “the bot replied to my Telegram message on the new box” — took about 90 minutes, and the bot was offline for less than two of them. The interesting part isn’t that it worked. The interesting part is what shape the plan had to take so that nothing ended up in a half-migrated state, and how OpenClaw itself helped me think through the migration before I touched a single file. ...

I run OpenClaw on an AWS EC2 instance. It’s a small t3.micro — nothing fancy — but cloud costs have a way of creeping up when you’re not watching. AWS offers cost alerts. I set them up. They work fine — they fire any day you hit your threshold. The problem: alerts don’t help you understand why you’re spending. They just tell you you’ve hit a limit. No breakdown by service. No trend analysis. No way to spot anomalies early. ...