At 3 a.m. when your Telegram bot doesn’t respond anymore because the hosting killed it, it’s already too late. Users that wanted to talk to your bot will definitely notice the downtime, and maybe these missed moments were important for them. On top of that, webhooks attached to your bot will pile up everywhere until the hosting gets rid of them, and scheduled jobs will simply fail. If your Telegram bot is just an experiment — either shared hosting or free PaaS tiers are enough. However, you should understand their limitations upfront — they will kill long-running tasks, interrupt idle processes, and containers may restart unpredictably.
Therefore, if you’ve chosen to make a proper Telegram bot using one of the frameworks for Python (aiogram, python-telegram-bot) or Node.js (Telegraf, grammY) , you’d better search for some VPS. Here are five of them that we’ve chosen according to the requirements your Telegram bot has:
Years of proven reliable uptime for a bot with the same functionality, low latency to Telegram’s API, of course, and sufficient resources on small plans. Telegram bot requirements:
Stable virtualization (preferably, KVM) where dedicated RAM is guaranteed. Location close to Telegram. The Bot API is served from Telegram’s European infrastructure mostly around Amsterdam. Anything in Western or Central Europe should get you round trips in low tens of milliseconds. Modest resources for a typical polling base bot. 1 vCPU and 1GB of RAM are sufficient, more if you run a database or queue workers or do media processing on the same box. Fast storage (NVMe) for frequent log writes and cache updates.
1.HIP.Hosting – Fast VPS/VDS worldwide
HIP-HOSTING is a provider that does only virtual servers (no shared hosting or reseller plans), and that focuses shows. They use pure KVM, so your bot has its own kernel, as well as isolated resources that won’t accidentally get suspended due to an OOM issue or container maintenance. The uptime is advertised as 99.8% or higher, and over my tests I’ve seen minimal downtime. The drives are NVMe, which means log writes and database lookups are very quick. There are 11+ locations, so chances are there will be one in Europe or the US that will fit you. One of them is fairly close to Telegram’s Amsterdam infrastructure, and if the bot calls regional APIs it’s a good idea to have it close to the users. Deployment takes less than a minute, and the provider offers all the usual templates (Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, etc).
- Pros: 99.8%+ uptime, well suited to continuous background processes thanks to pure KVM, NVMe, and 11+ locations that minimize API latency.
- Cons: Technical support is only over tickets (no live chat), and it is also an unmanaged environment (OS updates, firewall, process supervision).
Best for: developers who want a set-and-forget box for one or several production bots.
2. LuxVPS – a solid European alternative for basic automation
Danish-registered LuxVPS operates out of Frankfurt in Germany, making it a little closer to Amsterdam than some other providers. The amount of RAM you get for the price is generous, and it’s possible to use the resources for multiple small bots, or even run a Redis instance. It has KVM plans, providing both IPv4 and IPv6 support, and can block a number of DDoS attacks.
Our only concern is the choice of location (the only way to get KVM plans) and very short refund window, so it’s wise to be careful when selecting a plan to avoid disappointment. Simple automation tasks such as notification bots and RSS forwarders should work flawlessly.
3. VeloHost – good for users who need localized EU nodes
VeloHost makes a point of drawing attention to the fact it runs its own hardware in a Tier III data center in Düsseldorf, Germany. There’s a cheap KVM plan available too, and you can rely on DDoS protection. VeloHost also maintains a looking glass in public for anyone to use.
If you absolutely need your data to be physically located in Germany, or your bot has to interact with German or EU-only services, VeloHost is the only online game in town.
4. IncogNet
IncogNet is a VPS service that retains greater user privacy, both during the signup process and in day-to-day operations. This VPS service requires simply an email address for sign-up and will permit payment in cryptocurrencies, including privacy-focused Monero. VPS servers are relatively equipped, with KVM virtual servers distributed between the US and Europe, including a VPS datacenter located in the Netherlands – a location that is convenient for users interested in working within a buoyant European environment or simple and cost-effective proximity to VPS virtual machines of data-hungry organizations such as Telegram.
Like many VPS services, IncogNet does retain the right to terminate accounts that appear to be abusing the resources in such a way that pretties performance for other customers. However, the service is rather flexible in the technical side of things. The servers retain a good balance of privacy and performance by being based in the US. Being a US company means that privacy as a feature means collecting as little data as possible rather than permitting data mining and other practices in a legally-untouchable offshore location. Because of this, the service is ideal for running bots with sensitive data rather than being being seen as merely a developer friendly service which does not require an ID.
5. HostSailor: offshore alternative with flexible usage policies
HostSailor is registered in Dubai and has historically run servers in the Netherlands and Romania, with additional locations added over time. Its acceptable use policy is more permissive than that of most mainstream hosts, which some developers need for scraping-heavy or high-volume broadcast bots that mainstream providers might flag.
The network and support quality have drawn mixed community feedback over the years, and some older plans still run on legacy virtualization. If you go with HostSailor, choose a KVM plan specifically and test it before moving production traffic.
Keeping your bot alive after deployment is very important. A high-quality VPS, while awesome, won’t do any good if your process crashes and won’t recover. Be sure to run your bot as a systemd service and use Restart=always. For Node.js projects, use PM2 and be sure to send your logs to a file with rotation. You might also want to set up a health check, and be sure to pin your dependency versions to avoid nasty surprises when dependencies update. For high-traffic bots, consider switching to webhooks instead of polling, behind Nginx to avoid too many open connections.
HIP.Hosting is a safe default as it has KVM isolation, NVMe disks, and multiple locations available — let’s you pick the one closest to your API latency. LuxVPS and VeloHost are both fine budget options in Germany, while IncogNet is great if privacy is important. HostSailor covers the edge cases where their usage policy is more flexible than their service is polished.
