A sleeping bot is a useless bot
A Discord bot hosted on your PC goes to sleep with it. On free platforms, it shares a CPU with hundreds of other processes and hibernates after a few idle minutes — your slash commands then take 5 seconds to respond, when they respond at all. A moderation or ticket bot must answer within 3 seconds, or Discord invalidates the interaction.
Reliability before power
A Discord bot uses little: 150 to 500 MB of RAM, one vCore is plenty. What matters is availability. Our measured 99.99% uptime means your bot stays online 364 days a year — and our monitoring restarts the hypervisor before you even notice anything.
PM2 or Docker so you never lose a process
pm2 start bot.js --name my-bot
pm2 startup && pm2 saveTwo commands, and your bot restarts itself after a crash or reboot. Add pm2 logs and you have complete visibility. More advanced teams containerize with Docker to deploy via git push — our guides cover both approaches.
From Gateway intents to shards
Under 2,000 Discord servers, an Apex handles any bot — including with an embedded SQLite or Redis database. Beyond that, Discord enforces sharding: a Titan with 16 GB of RAM comfortably absorbs a dozen shards. NVMe Gen4 accelerates data-heavy bots (moderation logs, economy systems, voice transcription).