Buyer's Guide
Weighing up bots and automation hosting
Written for people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and glue scripts running round the clock — the tests that matter, the trap to sidestep, and where we would honestly send you.
Straight answer first
Our verdict, stated first: a small VPS with PM2 or systemd keeping the processes upright — the Economy tier carries a surprising number of bots for very little money.
The reasoning, the tests and the trap to avoid all sit below — written for people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and glue scripts running round the clock, with none of the affiliate-table theatre this subject usually attracts.
Written by the Hosting Seller staff · Checked 1 August 2026
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Most advice on this subject is a ranking table funded by referral fees. This page works differently: name the buyer (people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and glue scripts running round the clock), name the tests, name the trap, and give a recommendation we are happy to defend across the counter.
One market fact frames the whole thing: a bot is the opposite of a website: almost no CPU demand, but an absolute need to stay running. That combination makes a small VPS its natural and cheapest home.
The handful of checks that matter
Hold every candidate against these, in this order:
Processes that stay resident, because that is the whole job of a bot.
Automatic restarts for the crashes that will certainly happen.
Small but guaranteed resources, which is the signature of this workload.
Freedom to make outbound calls to whatever APIs your automation talks to.
Read this before you compare price tags
Cron-only hosting for a resident bot; a scheduled wake-up is not the same as staying alive, and the bot misses everything that happens in between.
Once you know to look for it, you can see it right across this market — and dodging it matters more than optimising any other number on the page.
The recommendation, and the reasoning behind it
A small VPS with PM2 or systemd keeping the processes upright — the Economy tier carries a surprising number of bots for very little money.
On our shelves that means the Economy VPS plan — SSL, migration and mail included, a renewal price matching the order price, and an upgrade path so the choice never has to be made again from scratch.
Order an annual plan and the first year of your domain registration is on the house.
Try it before you trust it
Any host worth ordering from survives inspection: check the renewal price is printed on the tag rather than in a footnote, ask support a real question at an awkward hour and read the reply, comb the refund policy for carve-outs, and look up the company registration — a genuine business leaves a paper trail.
The refund window covers the rest — move a real site across (the free migration makes that painless), live with it for a fortnight, and let daily use settle what no marketing page can.
Why we can afford to give a straight answer
Most 'best hosting' writing is paid ranking. Ours has a simpler motive: we recommend the setup we would sell you anyway, and we say so — which leaves the rest of the page free to be genuinely useful.
Real people answer the counter at any hour, including the awkward questions other hosts wave off as out of scope.
- Tests you can run for yourself
- Renewal prices on the tag, not in a footnote
- The free move in makes trying us painless
- A refund policy with no small print
Why Hosting Seller
On every plan, as standard
A refund without a gauntlet
If it does not suit, leaving is a request rather than a negotiation — which is why we are content to be tested.
Written for the real buyer
The tests here come out of actual conversations with people keeping Discord bots, schedulers and glue scripts running round the clock, not off a feature spreadsheet.
Support you can try first
Ask us something hard before you pay — how a host behaves pre-sale is the ceiling of what follows.
One price, plainly printed
The order price is the renewal price — the comparison that matters is the one we win without trying.
NVMe and LiteSpeed as standard
The performance kit other hosts reserve for premium tiers is simply how our plans are built.
The essentials on the tag
SSL, migration, backups and mail come with every plan instead of appearing at checkout as extras.
First Steps
From choosing to live
- 1
Write the requirement in one sentence
One honest sentence about the workload beats an afternoon of feature-table comparison, so write it before you go shopping.
- 2
Price the second year, not the first
Teaser rates are this market's favourite trick, so compare hosts on what year two costs and the field reorders itself on the spot.
- 3
Try it inside the refund window
Order, move a real site across free, and use it properly for a fortnight — the daily experience is the product, and the window makes trying it cost nothing.
In the Box
Packed with every plan
- Real people on the counter, every hour of every day
- Mailboxes that carry your own domain name
- A 99.9% uptime commitment, watched by monitoring day and night
- Staging copies so changes get tested before they go live
- LiteSpeed caching running at the server, not bolted on by plugin
- Spam and virus filtering fitted to every mailbox
- Webmail in the browser plus IMAP, POP and SMTP for your own client
- A backup taken daily, with restores you run yourself
- WebP image optimisation built in and costing nothing
- A 30-day money-back guarantee on every hosting plan
Across the Counter
The questions we get asked most
What keeps a bot alive through crashes and reboots?
A process manager. A systemd unit or PM2 with startup hooks restarts it on failure and brings it back after a reboot. Add a health-check cron for belt and braces. Set it up once and you can honestly forget it.
How many bots will a small VPS hold?
Idle-heavy ones — Discord bots, schedulers, watchers — stack up generously. Memory is the real ceiling, so budget roughly 50-150MB for each Node or Python bot against your RAM and keep some headroom for spikes.
Where do the servers actually sit?
Our hosting runs from European datacentres with London at the centre, behind server-level caching that keeps cached pages quick for visitors anywhere. For most sites the build of the platform — NVMe disks, LiteSpeed, sensible numbers of accounts per machine — decides the speed far more than the postcode does.
Is the SSL certificate genuinely free?
On every plan, with nothing held back. The certificate is issued the moment your domain points here and reissues itself well before expiry. The encryption is the same as a paid DV certificate — paid tiers exist only for wildcard coverage or organisation validation, which most sites never need.
Can I test changes somewhere safe first?
Yes — plans with staging let you clone the live site, work on the copy, then push it across when you are satisfied. It is the difference between hoping an update behaves and knowing that it does before any customer meets it.
Can I bring a domain I already own?
Yes, and transfers in are routine. Unlock the name at your present registrar, collect the auth code, then start the transfer from your client area. Whatever registration time is left comes across with it, and DNS keeps answering the whole way through.
Who actually runs the company?
Hosting Seller is a trading name of Bohzo Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales — a real business with a public record and terms published under English law. Looking that up is worth doing about any host before you hand over your domain.
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