Self-hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failures

I run OpenClaw on a Hetzner CAX ARM VPS. It talks to me over Signal and does a morning press review. Three gotchas on that box are worth writing down: one money trap in the model-routing layer, and two silent failures that each left the briefing dead for days. In case someone is staring at the same thing. OpenRouter can spend your credits on a provider you didn't pick I use OpenRouter as the single door to a pile of models. Its BYOK (bring-your-own-key) feature has a trap. You add yo...