My Server Sleeps at Night. That Turned Out to Be a Security Feature.

I gave my side project a sleep schedule on Krova Cloud to save money — power off at 1 AM, wake at 7. The surprise side effect: zero attack surface while asleep. Here's the setup, the cron, and the trade-offs. At 3 a.m., my production server is off. Not down — off. On purpose. It started as a money thing. The project has human hours: traffic ~8:00...