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!
Why not use dynamic DNS since this isn’t something mission critical?
Never really thought about it! Thanks, will take a look
Happy to help :) I have ddns configured with duckdns and it’s been pretty smooth. The only problem will be if you’re behind cgnat.
FYI you don’t need static IP for telegram bots if you use polling instead of webhook. So if your house connection is stable enough, you can make do with Raspberry Pi.
I’m hosting my stuff on cheapest DigitalOcean droplet (but still use polling for telegram bots). Any stable VPS provider would do just fine and you’ll have system resources left for other stuff, telegram bots are very light.
I’m not sure I understand how I could use polling in this case. Would I just keep sending requests to the endpoint to see if there are any new messages sent or something like that?
AWS EC2 has an always free tier that is perfect for telegram bots
Yeah I was thinking about EC2 as I’ve used it before for another project. Wanted to see if there are any other options just in case.
recently did my own research on hosting providers for my own telegram bot project and i found ec2 had the easiest set up process and most transparent pricing structure for my needs
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.
