Data persistence is a solved problem. “Server that never fails or reboots” is not.

It seems they all do, though. Digital ocean was the same.

Any decent VPS provider (including DigitalOcean, unless they’ve changed anything) definitely doesn’t do this.

Maybe you're right, I may be mistaken. Perhaps I should migrate to DO.

Actually, I should qualify this.

If you use a PaaS (platform as a service, e.g. Heroku, DO App Platform, AWS EB), they might assume your app to be stateless and do things like restart it at will.

If you use a VPS (virtual private server, e.g. DO Droplet, AWS EC2), this certainly shouldn’t happen, but of course it requires some Linux skills to maintain your VPS.

So it’s basically a trade-off between engineering your app to fit a PaaS or hand-managing your VMs (though the latter is usually the cheaper option).

Yeah, indeed. I can try using a Droplet but I'm just new to managing a VM by hand. I've always used a PaaS for my projects so ensuring uptime and whatever other responsibilities there may be is new for me.

If that’s the case I’d suggest you probably have a bug in your code somewhere that depends on a timer that resets at midnight. So when it spans midnight everything resets, but this isn’t the server resetting.