I have been using the Hacker plan’s Always On feature to host a discord bot. Its a small bot. How would i use the new deployment feature to host this?
Do VM Deployments cost an additional $6 on top of the hacker plan?
Hi @JustinCooper6 , welcome to the forums!
Setting up a Deployment is pretty easy. Just click the Deploy button, select an option, and do the final steps (domain linking etc) and you’re done!
Reserved VMs are paid, but the other 2 are free with Hacker or Pro.
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Be careful in your optimistic answer, for the moment you can only use Reserved VM for Discord bot, so it won’t be free
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You cannot use Autoscale?
Unfortunately not at the moment
I’ve done a test with the Deployment experts at Replit and they said, after tests, that deployment of bots or background processes is, right now, only possible on Reserved VM.
I would love to have a bot always alive and I would pay only for compute cycles based on the usage and things it does but it’s not possible now …
Deployments are really interesting but, as always with Repl, not mature enough to replace all our great usages of Repl 
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Actually, dependant on the use case and how your bot is made, you can indeed use Autoscale deployments.
If you use a HTTP interaction based bot, Discord will send a POST? request to your app at a URL you specify in the developer portal.
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Very interesting, do you have an example on repl.it of such a Discord bot ?
It means that instead of having a discord run at a specific port, you can just have a Flask waiting for discord to make a POST ?
Have you tested with Deployments ?
Thanks
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I made a quick one a while ago using Express.js that just searched Google for results, might publicise that later.
Yeah that’s exactly how it works 
Not with this bot in particular but with other websites running Express (which means it should just work fine)
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This seems to be the answer i’m looking for.
I’m basically wanting a VM thats always on running my discord bot script. It looks like deployments doesn’t support that at the moment. I love repl for its ease of use and beautiful UI but it sucks that their wont be a direct replacement for ‘Always Active’ without having to rewrite my bot.
Same for me, you can only do it with Reserved VM
But I think $6 per month for a Discord bot is really too expensive …
Thanks for your example, I need to see which python package can do that
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