Discord Bot Hosting

The common saying of "when the product is free, you are the product" is quite useful on the internet. There is no "free hosting company" that will grant you proper freedoms or quality service. The closest you might get are Glitch and Heroku - which both offer "free" express.js and Node.js application hosting, with drawbacks, of course.

Both of those only grant you very limited disk space and system resources, and also shut down your project in inactivity or just randomly, meaning that any bot running there will likely be very unstable.

You can get yourself cheap servers, a raspberry pi costs about ~30-40 dollars or even less, and will more than suffice to host a Discord bot, website or anything else - and will be better than most hosting services that you find.

The way I hosted my js bot, well I think ur doing js cause category. I used 

glitch.com for storing the code and stuff

uptimerobot.com for keeping the bot online 

Keep in mind the bot wont be online 24/7 there might be some down time but there like 5 to 10 automatically but u can always do it manually to get it back online quicker.

@eb_

Thanks ill try it!

I made need your help setting it up though...

@Texas

You can host a bot on a rasberry? 

@Moon

Sure dm me Shade#0122 and yes u can host pretty sure with your own physical one but im not 100% sure but yes you can make your own servers with ras

@eb_

I don't think im going to host one on a rasberry since I need to format an SD card and put it back in it. Also the one I have is super slow

I think im just going to use the suggestion you gave me earlier 

@Moon cool if u want any help dm

@eb_

Thanks!

@eb_ Glitch Banned Pinging Bots Using Any Website Like UptimeRobot Anyone Doing It Will Get Their Project Shut Down And Trying To Ping It Anyways Will Throw A 404 Error Since Glitch Blocks It

@Moon You can host a Discord bot on any computer, assuming that it supports Node.JS and has an internet connection available to it. This covers the range of all modern x86 (_64) processors, and most ARM processors. Raspberry Pis run ARM-based SoCs (latest being Raspberry Pi 4B's quad core @ max 2.147 GHz CPU).

Raspberry Pis by default operate the Raspbian operating system, which is a derivative of Debian Linux and is extremely easy to use and maintain. For the most part, getting a Raspberry Pi functional is just possibly adding accessories to it such as cases, fans, etc., booting it up, loading your bot onto it either via removable storage or SSH, starting it up, and letting it sit there for eternities. Raspberry Pis don't consume much power and unless you have a 5V fan on it, completely silent, as well as being tiny enough to run off of WiFi in some small space like a cupboard. Once you have it set up (plugged in, internet connection enabled via Ethernet or WiFi), you can access the Raspberry Pi by simply SSHing into it from your computer, you can then control it effectively.

If you have any questions about Raspberry Pis, GNU/Linux or hosting, you can contact me on Discord or just email me.

@Texas

I don't have a computer running 24/7

Don't use Glitch since they ban services such as Uptime Robot. I suggest repl.it instead. Like Texas said, a cheap raspberry pi is a good option.

@Wabz

What about

something.host?

@Moon You don't need a computer running 24/7. A Raspberry Pi IS a computer, a cheap 30-40 dollar mini computer. It has an SoC with a CPU (4x @ max 2.147 GHz), a GPU that can handle basic 3D applications, up to 8 GBs of LPDDR4 memory, ethernet, bluetooth, Wi-Fi. You have it plugged in somewhere and running while connected to Wi-Fi, when you need to access it remotely, you SSH into it, change, upload, delete files as you wish, start and stop programs, etc. Once you're done, the Pi will still be running.

Not sure what point you were making.