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Telegram · Discord · Bots · Always on

A home for your bot that doesn’t sleep.

Free tiers sleep, dyno hours run out, laptops close. A $2.59 VPS runs the bot 24×7 — and 500 more like it.

Every bot developer follows the same arc: it starts on a free tier, the free tier sleeps or the hours run out, the bot goes quiet, users complain. The fix isn’t a bigger free tier — it’s a $2.59 VPS where the process just stays up.

One VPS doesn’t run "a bot" — it runs as many as you write. Python, Node, Go; long-polling or webhooks; a systemd unit each and they all share the box. Most bot devs never outgrow the smallest tier.

For bots serving Indian users, in-country hosting trims webhook and API-call latency — small per call, meaningful across thousands.

Set up in 5 steps.

  • 1. Deploy the smallest Linux VPS — Hut at $2.59/mo is genuinely enough for most bots.
  • 2. Install your runtime (python3-venv, Node via nvm, Go, whatever).
  • 3. Clone the bot, install deps, add a systemd unit so it restarts on crash and on boot.
  • 4. Webhooks? Put Caddy or nginx in front for TLS and point Telegram at your domain. Long-polling needs nothing extra.
  • 5. Ship it — then add the next bot to the same box.

Recommended tiers

Hut — $2.59/mo
1GB — several Python/Node bots + webhooks
Deploy →

Cabin — $3.79/mo
2GB — bots + a database + a dashboard alongside
Deploy →

Common mistakes

  • • Running the bot in a bare shell — one SSH disconnect kills it. systemd or a supervisor is five minutes of setup.
  • • Putting the token in the repo — use env vars or a .env file excluded from git.
  • • Paying per-dyno or per-execution pricing — a flat VPS hosts unlimited bots for one price.
  • • No logging — journald captures stdout free; wire it up before you need it.

When this is NOT enough

You’ll know: thousands of concurrent webhook hits, heavy image/video processing per message, or a database that’s outgrown shared RAM. That’s the 4–8GB tiers — still in place, same IP. If one bot gets truly huge it probably deserves its own box anyway.

Real questions

Bot hosting FAQ

Runtimes, webhooks and how many bots fit.

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Dozens of typical Python/Node bots — they’re tiny. RAM and CPU become the limit only at serious webhook volume.
Long-polling is simplest and works on any outbound connection. Webhooks scale better and need a domain + TLS — Caddy makes that a two-line config.
Anything — it’s a full Linux root server. python-telegram-bot, Telegraf, discord.py, grammY, your own stack.
Yes — it runs under systemd on the server. Your laptop is irrelevant to it.
Free tiers sleep, cap hours, or throttle. This is a dedicated slice that stays up — and the 7-day refund makes trying it risk-free.
Telegram’s DCs are global so latency is a wash — the India benefit is when your bot calls Indian APIs or serves Indian users’ data.
Get started → $2.59/mo

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