So glitch has been S*** lately, and I have a big server, and well I need somewhere to host my discord bot for it. I do have a VPS, but its in user right now. I really need some recommendations
I even pay for glitch plus, and I cant handle this downtime
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You can always self-host. It really depends on how many servers your bot is in.
I can’t self host, Im out of home a lot, and the bot needs to be on 24/7
I suppose you could do some research into VPS.
If anyone has any good recommendations, post them here!
I would buy a VPS at https://digitalocean.com and host your bot there.
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Repl.it is what im using now to host my bots since its like glitch and they make it easier to add a custom domain, if you need help with installing packages (which i had issues with) let me know.
Also there are a lot of good free VPS that you find on discord and they have invite rewards and more in which you can get more space on. Let me know if you would like to find a discord VPS bc i know a few.
What is the difference between a VPS and a Discord VPS?
Di’nt you make qbot, I made my own open soruce bot called rbot!
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Yeah I did, and cool.
I dont like repl.it because its not private
If you’d like I can help you setup a DigitalOcean VPS.
somone can just flat out take the bot
I have a vps, BUT Its in use by all our sites and stuff
You can buy up to 3 DigitalOcean droplets by default so you should just be able to buy a new one.
Don’t use DigitalOcean
Oh, alright. Well any Ubuntu VPS should work (or really any type of VPS)
I’ve tried to use DigitalOcean because I got a 100 dollar credit, but I could not use my debit card
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I believe you can use Paypal which supports debit cards.
it is private, for me atleast.
Do you have the premium plan? Because otherwise it is not private.
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it might be bc im a student and used the github perks
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Oh yeah, that would get you the premium plan for 3 months if I recall correctly.
I can recommend a VPS from Contabo, they also offer Ubuntu, they have really cheap VPS’
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I recommend galaxy gate. Really good and kind support, have a discord server, used by a lot of my friends, great specs for only $3 a month (i use it for one of my bots, never had any issues)
You get:
- Full root access
- 1vCPU
- 15G storage
- 1G memory
For only $3 a month.
https://www.galaxygate.net/hosting/vps/
I also like contabo (have a dedicated server plan with them) but they’re quite a sketchy company and I do not recommend buying a vps with them, but don’t really have a reason not to, just be careful. Note: they also have a fee for every little thing.
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Compared to Contabo’s cheapest plan it kinda sucks:
- 3.99 EUR (or 4.5 USD)
- 2 CPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 300 GB HDD (with SSD boost)
Of course, by any means choose Contabo if you prefer so. I’ve heard some stories on how they manage to keep the cost so low and cram as many customers as possible on a server for such specs. Including using SSDs for memory in some cases.
If your bot is in JS, you should be able to run it on Vercel. It’s worth checking out.
Does it support node.js
It does not say anywhere you can host bots on it?
repl.it best evert <3
You can’t private projects for free!
If you have github student you can get the “hacker plan” for a couple months I believe for free. But couple months isn’t unlimited.
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Anybody else know any, I need somthing for free! and no debit card
I use this and its pretty good for the price ($7 a year) https://witherhosting.com
I suggest repl.it.
For a while, especially after Thimble merged with Glitch. I’ve been seeing “Glitch sucks, I’m moving to Repl.it” and I was never one of those people but with all the incidents and the new “blocking ping services”, I kind of just had to leave Glitch.
I heard Repl.it makes projects go inactive after 30 minutes so need for 5 minute intervals like you do with Glitch. I can continue to use UptimeRobot and have to worry about the ping service being blocked.
The only issue I have with Repl.it is you can’t auto-run, it auto-saves which is nice but I would love an auto-run just like Glitch has. So, for my Discord Bots, I decided to just code on Glitch (whenever Glitch allows me to edit…) but still have UptimeRobot link to my repl.it project. Then when Glitch isn’t working, I code on Repl.it and click on that “Run” button (or Ctrl+Enter) several times a day. It’s a pain but you gotta do what you gotta do! 
I don’t have github student, and that’s the only way to get repl.it projects private for free
Where, I don’t see it
use https://loc.sh/discord as they currently have free ubuntu servers. Be warned, the ram is 300mb at the start, but you can upgrade by being active in the server. I also have bought some hosting space, so hmu at githubfan#7548 
Ill give it for free to anyone that wants it
i have gh student pack, how does that give me discount at digital ocean?
Repl.it is free… I signed up like 3 hours ago
Just click on “Sign up”.
that makes my code public…
what you said, don’t want my token public
i don’t want my token nor my code public
if anyone has discord, just dm me at githubfan#7549 and ill be happy to give you some hosting for free
won’t work, invalid name
sorry githubfan#7548
also wrong, check your CaPiTaLiZaTiOn
GitHubFan#7548 discord is annoyin
it is lol, request sent
The truth is, there is no real 100% free forever service.
Its either you deal with outages or get your credit card out.
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Their website hosting seems reasonable too. May look into it. Thanks for sharing
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https://ide.goorm.io works very very well!
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as far as i see, it’s and IDE, not an hosting…
Edit: nevermind, now i see it
you need to have workspace page opened for 24/7 container lmao
At that point just self host the bot.
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I’d just reccomand finding an old pc or something, and downloading ubuntu on it then host
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or a raspberry pi, small and good enough to host a bot
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I’m considering working with other reputable members of the Glitch community and providing free hosting to bots which are of a decent size and provide something unique.
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Would be happy to help if you decide to do this
repl.it keeps your .env file private, just like glitch (and you should always put tokens in a .env file)
https://docs.repl.it/repls/secret-keys
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Vercel doesn’t support NodeJS as it is, it only supports serverless functions using Express, I advise you not to host Discord bots on Vercel.
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- your code gets public (!!)
- is it always online? from my experience, no
Yes, your gonna have to deal with that. (Keep token in .env)
If you setup a webserver and ping it (similar to glitch) it will stay online.
yeah, i found a better alternative, the thing is that my code can’t go public, so repl.it is worthless for me
I do believe that repl.it has some kind of pack for teacher, you can apply to be a “teacher”, and it let you private your repls. check it here.
Or if you are student you can private them too https://repl.it/site/github-students
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Hacker plan, here I come.
Link, I really need one where my code is private!
Name it something COMPLETELY random for example HDHVJgegtji6462o
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True, the odds of somebody finding the code is unlikely this way.
Like for my public discord bot we created an account we all share named something really random, and named the project something really random.
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Name your account randomly too, otherewise I can just view repl’s on your account.
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