Hosting Discord Bots

[DeanJ]

Hello,

 

I wanted to ask about how much RAM is enough to put on a VPS to run 5+ Discord bots? Considering I will also need a MySQL database.

 

I never really used a VPS and I am new to this concept.

 

[Slottr]

REALLY depends on what these bots are doing.

[DeanJ]

3 minutes ago, Slottr said:

REALLY depends on what these bots are doing.

I was planning to have (Discord.py):

1 bot handling security, authentication

1 bot for administrative purposes such as giving roles, creating events in general 

1 bot for Music and Entertainment purposes

 

So a total of 3 bots

[Eigenvektor]

Just now, distance said:

I was planning to have (Discord.py):

1 bot handling security, authentication

1 bot for administrative purposes such as giving roles, creating events in general 

1 bot for Music and Entertainment purposes

 

So a total of 3 bots

You could try running them in a virtual machine like VirtualBox, to see how much memory they need to run. A VPS is exactly the same thing, just hosted by someone else. Run a VM, run the bots for some hours/days with simulated traffic and observe their memory consumption. The first two don't sound too memory intensive to me, but the developer (you?) probably has a better understanding of how much memory they require.

 

A MySQL database will use whatever memory you throw at it, but it depends on how much data you expect the database to contain, to estimate how little you can get away with. The recommended  absolute minimum would be around 512 MB. Add some memory for the bots and the OS and you'd probably want at least 1 GB.

[Kilrah]

Well, which ones exactly? Code should have some doc to mention requirements.

[Kopaka]

If they're just running on one discord server I wouldn't expect a whole lot.

 

I'd suggest just starting off with the smallest vps you can find (500mb or 1gb), most decent places have the ability to scale up as you go (but not necesarily down), then just keep on eye on usage as you start them up.