Cheaper than a VPS for a single bot, and you do not have to maintain the operating system yourself.
512MB to start, with 768MB and 1024MB tiers as your bot grows.
The whole point of paid bot hosting is that it does not go to sleep.
Free tiers suspend your process after inactivity and your bot shows offline. This one does not.
If your bot throws and dies, it comes back up without you noticing.
Node.js, Python and Java — discord.js, discord.py, JDA and the rest.
Deploy and debug the way you would locally, with real output to read.
For one bot, considerably. A VPS makes sense once you are running several services.
The same Zen 4 fleet as our game servers. Those are the only two regions we run.
512MB is enough for most bots. Music bots and bots caching a lot of guild state want 1024MB.
A typical command-and-response bot on a handful of servers sits comfortably in 512MB. What pushes memory up is caching — holding member lists, message history or voice state for many guilds — and audio processing. If your bot plays music in several servers at once, start at 1024MB.
No. It runs continuously until you stop it, and restarts automatically if it crashes.
This is the main difference from free hosting tiers, which idle your process out after a period of inactivity and cause your bot to appear offline. Your bot here is a persistent process on the same infrastructure as our game servers.
Node.js, Python and Java bots are all supported — discord.js, discord.py, JDA and the rest.
You get full SFTP access to upload your code and a live console to watch output and errors, so you deploy and debug the same way you would locally.
Common questions about hosting a Discord bot with us.