> I do what you are describing for fun, but I would never recommend it for a business, even if it is reliable.

I appreciate your response and don't necessarily disagree. Could you tell me a little more about why you wouldn't recommend it for a business, even if it is reliable?

> To get around the reliability problems, I have the on-prem laptop environment update cloudflare entries with keep-alive timestamp messages. .. I then have a Google script that monitors the keepalive and if too much time has passed, a “failover” is done and everything that was running on-prem is spun up in digital ocean. The failover script completes by updating DNS and pointing to DO

This is a clever solution. Thank you for your thoughts!