> Then you're going to have to try to remember how the damn thing works

Fortunately, the author wrote a derailed essay explaining all of this…

> You should never add more failure points to infra, ever.

Every time you add a new system or a new feature you necessarily “add more failure points”, there's no way around that.

One should avoid introducing more failure points than needed for the functionality you want, that's it.

You say it's a “solved problem”, but you only give solutions to a different problem (starting the server at a scheduled time, when the author wants to start the server on demand).