Do you need a static IP? can't you have a Dynamic DNS running on your router?
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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A static up is not required for a telegram bot as the telegram api acts as an intermediary with the clients.
Any $5 VPS (usually single core plus 1GB RAM) should be good enough for this purpose if it is just a bot for you and your friends.
AWS Lambda is the best for this, my bots run on it. That is, if you're ok with some delay in response. Otherwise an EC2 might work.
Telegram bot doesn't need static IP, it connects to the service and does a get for updates. Default python wrapper polls.
That being said pythonanywhere or heroku are good cheap options.
Oracle Cloud provides free plans
if you're able to register...
The gotcha for this is that you have to actually use the resources on your free instance or they will reclaim it. I use my instance as a Minecraft server so it utilizes about half of the 24GB RAM you get. For a very light compute task like a chat bot, it might be difficult to keep the instance from being reclaimed.
From this page:
Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:
CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15% Network utilization is less than 15% Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)
probably could fit into fly.io free tier. also as others have mentioned - oracle oci provides a nice free vm, which can be shut off if usage of resources is low, but you can workaround it by increasing a volume a bit more than free tier allows and pay something like a 1-2$ for it monthly.
Why not use dynamic DNS since this isn't something mission critical?
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