python-discord/meta

New tag suggestion

Diabolical5777 opened this issue · 3 comments

Diabolical5777 commented

Tag Name- VPS
The tag covers what is a VPS and some examples of good ones
Tag content:
If you need to run your bot 24/7 (with no downtime), you should consider one a cheap VPS.
The following is a list of recommended services that many people on the server have used.
They are reliable and good value for money. Their specs should be sufficient for running Discord bots.

https://www.scaleway.com/

  • Cheap VPS
  • Based in Europe.

https://www.digitalocean.com/

  • Cheap VPS
  • US-based.
  • Considered by many to be the gold standard.
  • Locations available across the world.

https://www.ovh.co.uk/

  • Cheap VPS, used by many people.
  • France and Canadian locations available.

https://www.time4vps.eu/

  • Cheap VPS.
  • Seemingly based in Lithuania.

https://www.linode.com/

  • Cheap VPS.

https://www.vultr.com/

  • Cheap VPS.
  • US-based, DigitalOcean-like.

https://galaxygate.net/

  • Cheap VPS.
  • A reliable, affordable, and trusted host.

If you would rather not pay for a hosting service, consider one of the following options:
Self-hosting:
Any modern hardware should be sufficient for running a bot, as long as you're not working under ridiculous conditions like less than 1GB of RAM.
An old computer you have could be suitable and a Raspberry Pi (any model, except perhaps one of the particularly less powerful ones) can also run a bot.

Free hosting:
There is no good or reliable free method for VPS hosting
It is highly suggested not to use services like Heroku or repl.it. There are a number of problems with them which make them highly unreliable.

swfarnsworth commented

I believe we have a pin to this effect in the discord-bots channel.

Diabolical5777 commented

I see, yeah there is indeed one, but this is more informative in my opinion.

swfarnsworth commented

I've pinned a variation of this in the discord-bots channel. Thank you for the suggestion!