What Happens When a Solo Dev Goes Down

I built Nydar by myself. No co-founder, no engineering team, no DevOps person on call. Just me, a VPS, and a lot of late nights. Last week I found out what happens when the "just me" part breaks. The short version I got hit with a serious infection. Thought it was COVID at first — it wasn't. Tested negative, got admitted, spent a week on IV antibiotics around the clock. I was too ill to look at my phone, let alone SSH into a server and check logs. For a solo operation, that's the nightmare scenario. There's no colleague to ping on Slack. No on-call rotation. No "hey can you keep an eye on things while I'm out." It's just... whatever you built, running on its own, for as long as it takes. What actually happened Nothing. In the boring sense. The API server stayed up the entire time. The ML models kept generating signals. The data feeds kept pulling from exchanges. The automated trading bot (not public yet, but it's running internally) executed 25 trades across the week, holding 5 positio