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rustic spindle
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gentle wadi
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please tell me this is satire 😭 🙏

hidden cipher
fossil lionBOT
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Discord Bot Hosting

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gentle wadi
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even pulled out the multiple e's 😌

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gentle wadi
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now THATS how you do it correctly

rustic spindle
leaden estuary
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What do you don't know // Why should anyone used their computation resources to host this for you?

edgy sedge
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The second best time to learn is now
Hosting costs money so it is unlikely someone will just "do it for you"

rustic spindle
leaden estuary
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E.g. all the bot I hosted is either

  • I wrote it myself for fun
  • They are my close friend for a long duration of time and I'm allowed to read at the source code
  • I am a developer in the project
leaden estuary
edgy sedge
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I pay $4 a month and I pay for the cheapest tier at a well known hosting company
You might be able to find some for a bit cheaper but idk for sure

leaden estuary
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I brought a raspberry pi and just plug it to my internet and power

edgy sedge
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^ depending on your local power costs this might also work

leaden estuary
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Only electricity needs to be paid(which tbf isn't that much)

west shoal
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and how stable your power and internet connection is compared to your requirements of how available the bot must be

leaden estuary
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Fyi my internet is fibre optic at about ~1Gbps and wrapped with always on VPN make it have 600Mbps down and 300Mbps up with barely latency

west shoal
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if you can find a old used raspberry pi 2 or something that someone doesn't want anymore and they sell it really cheap second hand

leaden estuary
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Well, it depends on how much you want to get out of that tiny device

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If you want to have some more than just hosting a bot, you probably want higher spec with SSD and good ethernet connection plug into the router

west shoal
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but even a raspberry pi 2 should be enough for your average discord bot

leaden estuary
rustic spindle
leaden estuary
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Also fyi I am running a 3k server discord bot and avg CPU usage is 5-6% for the last 12h and memory about 550MiB(I didn't count swap usage because well, I cannot)
And it's not crazy optimised

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It was raspberry pi 4b if I forgot to mention

west shoal
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a low spec raspberry pi like that will use very little power and doesn't really need active cooling, so it will be silent and not cost that much to run compared to paying for hosting, but it will be a lot more involved if you don't already know linux

rustic spindle
leaden estuary
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I did just plug in active cooling to my raspberry pi but except it have spin like 9 months ago in the summer, I don't remember it spin in other time

leaden estuary
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That metric is just telling you it's not going to be crazy high and you don't need too much computational resources

nocturne swallow
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I personally run a raspberry pi 4 for any of my hosting

leaden estuary
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You do need to have knowledge on how to install the operation system, and also if you brought other components (such as SSD, case, active cooling etc.) you need to know how to assemble them and not break it

rustic spindle
west shoal
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on the other hand, if you are willing to learn it can come very handy later in your life and career

nocturne swallow
leaden estuary
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Slightly ot You can have Linux terminal run locally on some android phone now

nocturne swallow
rustic spindle
west shoal
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first you need a raspberry pi, almost any version of it will do
then you need a Micro-SD card 8 GB or 16 GB is fine and a card reader/writer either for a Micro-SD card or a SD card with an adapter (usually comes with the Micro-SD cards)

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you do need to check if it got wifi built-in if you want to use that, but the built-in usually have pretty bad range, otherwise you would need a usb wifi dongle as well
or just use an ethernet cable as long as the raspberry pi you pick up has a ethernet jack (most do, like the B and B+ models, but not the Zeros and A+ models)

west shoal
rustic spindle
fossil lionBOT
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