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!
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?
Yes Telegram bot API supports long polling which is basically your server making successive long-running requests to the Telegram server and wait for a response.