VPS and Free Hosting Service for Discord bots

Recommended VPS services¶

If you need to run your bot 24/7 (with no downtime), you should consider using a virtual private server (VPS). Here is a list of VPS services that are sufficient for running Discord bots.

• Europe
  • netcup
    • Germany & Austria data centres.
    • Great affiliate program.
  • Yandex Cloud
    • Vladimir, Ryazan, and Moscow region data centres.
  • Scaleway
    • France data centre.
  • Time 4 VPS
    • Lithuania data centre.
• US
  • GalaxyGate
    • New York data centre.
    • Great affiliate program.
• Global
  • Linode
  • Digital Ocean
  • OVHcloud
  • Vultr

Why not to use free hosting services for bots?¶

While these may seem like nice and free services, it has a lot more caveats than you may think. For example, the drawbacks of using common free hosting services to host a discord bot are discussed below.

Replit¶

• The machines are super underpowered, resulting in your bot lagging a lot as it gets bigger.

• You need to run a webserver alongside your bot to prevent it from being shut off. This uses extra machine power.

• Repl.it uses an ephemeral file system. This means any file you saved through your bot will be overwritten when you next launch.

• They use a shared IP for everything running on the service. This one is important - if someone is running a user bot on their service and gets banned, everyone on that IP will be banned. Including you.