Lessons From Running an OpenClaw Agent in Production for 30 Days
I ran one OpenClaw agent on a $24/month DigitalOcean droplet for 30 days. Same agent. Same workload. No babysitting. I wanted to know what actually breaks when you stop checking on it.
Total uptime came in at 28 days, 14 hours, and 6 minutes. That sounds clean until you read the logs.
This is what those 30 days actually looked like, with the failures, the costs, and the small ugly things nobody writes about.
The setup
The droplet was a DigitalOcean s-2vcpu-4gb in SGP1. Two vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD. $24 a month. Ubuntu 22.04. Docker installed, OpenClaw running in a single container, tied to a tiny Postgres for state. The agent ran one workflow on a 90-second polling loop: check a webhook queue, pick the next job, decide which tool to call, call it, write the result, sleep.
The tools available to the agent were small on...
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