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Your files live on your server and in an encrypted copy at OVHcloud, in France. Frequency, retention per plan and verification, limits included.
Bot-Hosting team, October 13, 2026Deploy from your own editor with the Bot-Hosting CLI
Deploy your bot from VS Code, Cursor or any editor: install the Bot-Hosting CLI, link a folder and push every save with bh deploy --watch. One-way only.
Bot-Hosting team, September 7, 2026How to connect the Bot-Hosting MCP server to ChatGPT
How to connect a custom MCP server to ChatGPT: add Bot-Hosting under Settings > Plugins (formerly connectors), sign in with OAuth, manage your bots by chat.
Bot-Hosting team, August 27, 2026How to host a Discord bot 24/7 for free (discord.js v14)
Host a discord.js v14 bot 24/7 for free: a minimal bot with a /ping command, the token in an environment variable, and a free deployment that never sleeps.
Bot-Hosting team, November 18, 2025Fix "Used disallowed intents" in discord.js and discord.py
Fix "Used disallowed intents" (close code 4014) and PrivilegedIntentsRequired: enable the privileged intent in the Developer Portal, or stop requesting it.
Bot-Hosting team, October 7, 2025Fix discord.js TokenInvalid: "An invalid token was provided"
Fix discord.js TokenInvalid and discord.py LoginFailure: the six causes, from an undefined env variable to a token reset after a GitHub leak, with fixes.
Bot-Hosting team, September 16, 2025How to host a discord.py bot 24/7
Host a discord.py bot 24/7: a minimal bot with a /ping app command, requirements.txt installed on every start, and a free Python deployment that never sleeps.
Bot-Hosting team, August 26, 2025Host a Telegram bot 24/7 with Python
Host a Telegram bot 24/7 with Python: a BotFather token, a 25-line aiogram 3 bot, polling or a webhook on a free HTTPS address, no sleep timer.
Bot-Hosting team, July 15, 2025How to run a Python script 24/7 in the cloud
Run a Python script 24/7 without your PC: a loop that survives errors, proper logging, scheduled jobs, and a free deployment that never sleeps.
Bot-Hosting team, June 10, 2025How to host a Lavalink server 24/7 for a Discord music bot
Host your own Lavalink v4 node 24/7: one-click deploy with the YouTube plugin, then connect a discord.js music bot with Shoukaku (host, port, password).
Bot-Hosting team, May 13, 2025Deploy a Discord bot from GitHub in 2 minutes
Deploy a Discord bot from GitHub, public or private repo: launch it in 2 minutes, set the token, auto-pull on restart, and add a Deploy button to your README.
Bot-Hosting team, April 8, 2025Building a Discord bot that scales
How to scale a Discord bot: why sharding is mandatory from 2,500 servers, why SQLite breaks across shards, and how to keep your code maintainable as you grow.
Pondwader, April 25, 2023Creating a webserver in Node.js with Express
Beginner Express.js tutorial: create a web server in Node.js, handle routes, send files, build a JSON API and handle POST requests, with code for every step.
Pondwader, April 25, 2023Creating schedules in Node.js with the cron library
Schedule cron jobs in Node.js with the cron npm package: install it, create a CronJob, write patterns like every day at 8 AM, and know when to use cron.
Pondwader, April 25, 2023Web scraping with Cheerio
Learn web scraping in Node.js with Cheerio and fetch: what scraping is, how to load a page, select elements and extract public data, with a full code example.
Pondwader, April 25, 2023Stay in the loop
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