Hosting provider advice for a Telegram bot? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by yungsinatra@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi everyone, me and my friends are thinking of making a Telegram bot to use GPT-4 as one of us has access to the API.

We're not going to release the bot to the public (only use between us), however we'd like the bot to run 24/7 so it's accessible whenever one of us needs it. Sadly we can't host it ourselves as neither of us is able to get a Static IP and has a free machine to run 24/7.

My question is, are there any recommended hosting providers (if it's free even better) where we could host our telegram bot on? Thanks!

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

AWS Lambda is the best for this, my bots run on it. That is, if you're ok with some delay in response. Otherwise an EC2 might work.

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Telegram bot doesn't need static IP, it connects to the service and does a get for updates. Default python wrapper polls.

That being said pythonanywhere or heroku are good cheap options.

[-] magmaus3@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago

Oracle Cloud provides free plans

[-] squidzorz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The gotcha for this is that you have to actually use the resources on your free instance or they will reclaim it. I use my instance as a Minecraft server so it utilizes about half of the 24GB RAM you get. For a very light compute task like a chat bot, it might be difficult to keep the instance from being reclaimed.

From this page:

Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:

CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15% Network utilization is less than 15% Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)

[-] SirMino@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

if you're able to register...

[-] saint@group.lt 1 points 1 year ago

probably could fit into fly.io free tier. also as others have mentioned - oracle oci provides a nice free vm, which can be shut off if usage of resources is low, but you can workaround it by increasing a volume a bit more than free tier allows and pay something like a 1-2$ for it monthly.

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