How to Self-Host a Discord Bot: Building and Running Your Own Bot 24/7

There's a moment every Discord bot developer remembers, even if nobody makes a big deal of it. You run node index.js, switch over to Discord, type a command, and your own code answers back. It's a small thing to get excited about, and it never gets old.

A day or two later you close your laptop, the bot goes offline with it, and the real question arrives: how do people keep these things running all the time?

I've hosted a handful of Discord bots over the years, and the truth is it stops being c

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