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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You don't need a static IP for a Telegram bot. I've been running one in a Termux on my phone for years.

[–] god 1 points 1 year ago

You can host for free on Vercel if you can set up webhook. It's not that hard. If you're gonna longpoll, even a cellphone on Termux would work. It can run on any computer that's turned on 24/7 or any server. Telegram bots don't require any resources by default unless you want to give it heavy features.