Best VPS for a Discord Bot

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Discord bots are some of the lightest things you can host — a single long-running process that mostly waits for events.

What a Discord bot needs

• 128–512 MB RAM for most bots — even music bots stay under 1 GB.
• Always-on uptime — a bot that sleeps is a bot that’s offline.
• Minimal disk — the code plus a tiny database if it persists state.

The pick: RackNerd 1GB

RackNerd’s 1 GB plan at $21.99/yr is more than a Discord bot needs, with full root and a dedicated IPv4. You could run several bots side by side.

Keep it online with systemd

pip install discord.py

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/bot/main.py
Restart=always

• Use systemd or pm2 so the bot restarts after crashes and reboots.
• Store tokens in environment variables, never in the repo.
• Register slash commands on deploy so new commands show up.

Bottom line: a Discord bot fits in 512 MB, so the 1 GB plan at $21.99/yr is overkill — and perfect. It’s the cheapest reliable way to keep a bot online 24/7.