Buying Guide
The pick we would make on Bots and Automation Hosting
Written for people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and integration scripts alive around the clock — the checks worth running, the trap worth avoiding, and the recommendation we would give a friend.
The short answer
The verdict up front, the reasoning after: a small VPS with systemd or PM2 keeping the processes upright, where the Spark tier holds a surprising number of bots for very little money.
The working sits below: the checks, the reasoning and the trap — written for people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and integration scripts alive around the clock, without the affiliate league-table theatre this topic usually attracts.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 18 August 2026
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Most writing on this subject is a league table funded by referral fees. We do it differently: name the buyer (people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and integration scripts alive around the clock), name the checks, name the trap, and make a recommendation we will defend in the open.
Begin from one fact about this market and the rest falls in behind it: bots turn the usual server profile inside out. They need almost no CPU and an uninterrupted connection for months at a time, and that combination makes a small VPS both their natural home and their cheapest one.
The short list of checks that matter
Put every contender through these, top to bottom:
Processes that stay resident indefinitely, since staying connected is the entire job.
Automatic restarts for the crashes that will certainly come along.
Modest resources, guaranteed, which is what this workload's shape amounts to.
Unrestricted outbound connections to whichever APIs the automation depends on.
Read this before you compare a single price
Cron-only hosting for a resident bot, since a scheduled wake-up is not a persistent connection and everything happening between invocations is simply lost.
Once it has been named you see it everywhere in this market — and steering around it does more for you than optimising any other figure on the page.
What we would recommend, working shown
A small VPS with systemd or PM2 keeping the processes upright, where the Spark tier holds a surprising number of bots for very little money.
In our range that means the Spark VPS plan — SSL, the move and mail already inside, renewal charged at the order rate, and an upgrade path so this decision never has to be made twice.
Order an annual plan and the first year of the name's registration is on us.
Check first, trust after
A host worth your money survives scrutiny: check the renewal figure is published up front rather than tucked into a footnote, put a real question to support at an inconvenient hour and judge the reply, read the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a legitimate business leaves a paper trail.
The refund window covers the rest — bring a live site over (the free migration makes that easy), run it for two real weeks, and let ordinary use answer what no sales page can.
No paid placements, no referral fees
Most 'best hosting' writing is ranking for hire. Our motive is simpler and stated plainly: we recommend the setup we would sell you either way — which leaves the rest of the page free to be useful.
Hosted somewhere else already? We move the whole site at no charge, usually within 24 hours, and it goes on answering visitors throughout.
- Checks you can run again yourself
- Renewal rates published, not footnoted
- A free migration makes the trial easy
- Refund terms with no small print
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
A refund without an argument
If we are not the fit, leaving is one request rather than a negotiation — which is why we invite the test.
Written out of real conversations
Every check here traces back to real exchanges with people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and integration scripts alive around the clock, not to a features spreadsheet.
Support you can test before paying
Put a hard question to us before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the best it will ever treat you.
One rate, published in the open
What you order at is what you renew at — the only comparison that counts is one we win by default.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The hardware other hosts keep behind premium tiers is simply the baseline build here.
The essentials inside, not added on
SSL, the migration, backups and mail come with every plan rather than appearing as checkout extras.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Write the job down in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon lost in feature grids — write it before you look at a single host.
- 2
Compare on what year two costs
Introductory rates are the oldest device in this market; rank hosts by the second year instead and the order rearranges itself at once.
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Run a real trial inside the refund window
Sign up, have a real site moved in free, and work it hard for two weeks — the day-to-day feel is the actual product, and the window makes the test free.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
- A renewal figure identical to the one you registered at
- PHP versions set per site from the control panel
- People on the support desk every hour of every day
- Mailboxes that answer at the name you hold
- SSH, Git and Composer on the developer plans
- WordPress Toolkit, with the updates seen to for you
- LiteSpeed caching in the server itself rather than bolted on by plugin
- Money back within 30 days on hosting plans, 7 on reseller
- Spam and virus screening on every mailbox by default
Frequently Asked
The questions that come up most
What keeps a bot alive across crashes and reboots?
A process manager. A systemd unit or PM2 with startup hooks restarts the process on failure and brings it back after the host reboots. Add a health-check cron as a second layer. Set it up once and forgetting about it becomes genuinely safe.
How many bots fit onto a small VPS?
Idle-heavy ones stack up generously, whether Discord bots, schedulers or watchers. Memory is the binding constraint, so allow roughly 50-150MB per Node or Python process against your available RAM and leave headroom for the occasional spike.
Where does the hardware physically sit?
The platform runs from a London datacentre with redundant power, cooling and several upstream carriers, with server-level caching in front that keeps cached pages quick for visitors anywhere. For most sites how the platform is built — NVMe disks, LiteSpeed, restrained account density per machine — counts for far more than where it sits.
Is the free SSL certificate genuinely free?
Entirely, on every plan. The certificate is issued as soon as the name points here and reissues itself well before it lapses. On encryption it matches any paid DV certificate — the paid options exist for wildcard coverage or organisation validation, which most sites never need.
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