background-workerlisted

Run a long-lived or 24-7 background worker in a cloud VM that won't auto-stop — queue workers, schedulers, bots, crawlers, or persistent agent loops. Disable auto-stop or set a TTL up to 30 days; the VM keeps its disk and IPv4 and resumes after a stop. Per-second flat pricing, ~10x cheaper than ephemeral sandboxes for steady-state work.
ariana-dot-dev/cloud-sandbox-vm-skills · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 70

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# Background / 24-7 worker (Box) Use this when work must **keep running unattended**: a queue worker, a Telegram/Discord bot, a polling agent, a scheduled scraper, or any always-on service. Ephemeral sandboxes (E2B microVMs, Codespaces) auto-die on a timer — wrong tool. A Box can be told to **never auto-stop**, persists its disk, and keeps a dedicated IPv4. ## Why Box - **No session cap** — runs hours/days/indefinitely. - **Persistent + resumable** — disk survives stop; `box resume` brings it back. - **Cheap steady-state** — flat per-second pricing beats ephemeral providers (50 always-on VMs ≈ $432/mo vs ~$4k+). ## Prereqs `curl -fsSL https://box.ascii.dev/install | sh`, then `box login "$BOX_API_KEY" --json`. ## Recipe ```bash box_id="$(box new --no-auto-stop --json | jq -r 'select(.event == "ready") | .id')" box ssh "$box_id" -- bash -s < ./setup.sh box ssh "$box_id" -- "cd /app && nohup ./worker.sh > /var/log/worker.log 2>&1 &" box extend "$box_id" --ttl 2592000 # optional: 30-day deadline ``` ## Survival rules Running processes do **not** survive stop/resume or fork — only the disk does. Make startup idempotent and relaunch after resume; use a process manager (`systemd`, `pm2`, `nohup`). ## Limits EU-only; disk-level snapshots; 100 active VMs soft cap; max 30-day TTL per extension (re-extend as needed).