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!
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.
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.
Do you need a static IP? can’t you have a Dynamic DNS running on your router?
Any $5 VPS (usually single core plus 1GB RAM) should be good enough for this purpose if it is just a bot for you and your friends.
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.
