Discord Bot Hosting JavaScript & Python

Pterodactyl is a management panel to control and manage your Discord application. All aspects of control for your bot are available within the Pterodactyl panel. Pterodactyl is widely used and very well documented, making it a well suited panel for any level of experience.

With Pterodactyl, you can execute commands, change configuration and manage the files for your bot. All of these are within a simple and intuitive interface. We would describe Pterodactyl as the cockpit for your bot, but just a lot more simple than an Airbus A380.

Discord bots are an application that is connected to the Discord Developer API service. These bots are a fully customisable application that can execute actions within Discord servers. These actions can vary from being moderative commands, playing music, games, or even bots that send random jokes into a server. Discord bots can be as complex or as simple as you want. Anyone can build a Discord bot, and any server can use a Discord bot.

If you are unsure of what to make your bot do, we recommend either creating a bot to automate moderation (banning, verification, message filtering) or having your bot provide a more informative service, such as providing documentation, links, instructions or promotional content. There are a huge variety of freely available bots you can download and load into Cybrancee bot hosting, so if you’re really stuck, the internet can provide some exotic solutions.

JavaScript or Python? A question which has no definitive answer, as it is entirely up to you. We recommend JavaScript because the Python packages for Discord bots are now no longer updated, and therefore, there is a large shift of users over to JavaScript (meaning there is lots of great documentation and help available online). However, that is not to discredit the simplicity and power that a Python Discord bot can hold.

Whatever your decision, we have a public GitHub repository with a sample bot for both JavaScript and Python.

Below are the reference locations for Discord.py and Discord.JS
https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py
https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js

No. Some hosting providers will send the server to sleep if there is no activity within an allotted time period. This can cause bots to take a long time to react to the first command. We don’t do this, instead all of our servers are operational all day, every day. Not to mention that we use green energy, so you shouldn’t feel guilty about leaving your server on!

However, if you are wanting to have a bot that goes to sleep on a schedule (for restricting bot usage for certain hours of the day), you can schedule power offs and power ons through the task scheduler built into Pterodactyl.

No, you do not need to use SSH or FTP. Cybrancee takes security extremely seriously, and we have done a lot of work to reduce the number of potential entry points available for malicious actors. We also strive to provide the most user friendly interface possible. A great solution to both of these problems is to provide the functionality of SSH and FTP within the Pterodactyl panel. You can use the remote console terminal as a replacement for SSH and the built in file manager to supersede FTP. By having these features available over the web, there is no need to download third party software to connect to your bot through SSH or FTP.

If you are using a remote repository, such as one hosted on GitHub, you can avoid manual file uploads by using the built-in Git integration from Pterodactyl. This makes for an even more convenient method of getting your bot files onto Cybrancee bot hosting.

Yes, you can upgrade anytime. All of our packages are contract-free and we allow upgrades and downgrades to and from any package. We allow you to scale from the smallest package right up to the top package without needing migrations, rebuilds, transfer fees etc. It’s a simple process and can be requested in a few clicks from your Cybrancee client area.

If you are unsure about whether you need to upgrade or not, Pterodactyl offers a fantastic real-time metric viewer, and if there is any doubt, contact our rock star support team and they’ll help get you the answer you need.

No, we never charge for extra usage. If you exceed your usage, the Cybrancee team are automatically notified. At this stage, multiple options are available:
- Cybrancee will assist with reducing your usage back within the allowed threshold.
- Upgrade options will be offered by the Cybrancee support team.
- Depending on the architecture of the bot, a second bot hosting account may be required.

Yes, you can use npm and pip. We understand the importance of using external packages within your application, and therefore it makes sense to ensure that we provide all of our clients with the ability to pull the required packages through either npm (for JavaScript) or pip (for Python).

Within Pterodactyl, you can specify the location of your Python requirements file, when your bot server starts, Pterodactyl will automatically check the requirements file and download any Python packages that are missing. Additionally, with JS Discord bots, you can use the command line interface to install any packages from Node Package Manager.

Yes, you can scheduled tasks, using CRON. Scheduled tasks open up a huge door of opportunity. You can use scheduled tasks to automate server restarts, log purging, actions, notifications, reports, the list goes on. We enable the creation of these scheduled tasks in the format of CRON jobs, (CRON meaning Chronos, the Greek god of Time).

With CRON jobs, you specify the intervals (when it will run and the frequency) and what script the job will execute. Here are a few ideas for what scheduled tasks you could set up:
- 1)Scheduled server restarts
- 2)Data purges / file purging
- 3)Maintenance messages to be sent into a designated channel

Yes, you can integrate your GitHub repository. We even recommend using git to store your source code. Git is a way of storing and managing your code and versions. Most developers use git, either in the professional environment or for personal use. If you’re moving from a different host to Cybrancee, putting your code into a git repository (such as GitHub or GitLab) can make your transition much easier.

Additionally, the git integration is refreshed every time your bot starts, keeping the local copy of your bot up to date with the latest version on git. This can save you a lot of time when handling different versions of your bot, and will smoothen the process greatly.

The principles of hosting an application and a website is the same, however to ensure optimal performance, we build each service separately to be specifically designed and tailored to either Web Hosting or DIscord Bot Hosting. Web hosting is a service we offer that enables you to build and host a website, these websites are available to be navigated to via the web (such as cybrancee.com). Bot hosting works a bit differently in that it isn’t a website you can visit, instead it is an application running on a server. In the case of Discord bots, these applications connect to the Discord Developer’s API and become available through that. With a Discord bot, there is also no domain, whereas with a website there usually is a domain.

There are some technical differences between the two, such as them running on different ports. A port can be described as a door to a device on a network. Each door has a number and has a specific service on the other side of the door. Web servers run on port 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), but Bot Hosting runs on a completely different port (designated by the hosting provider).

Though there are lots of functional and architectural differences between the two, both services are managed through Cybrancee in a similar fashion, and we keep this as simple as possible through the use of Plesk (for web hosting) or Pterodactyl (for Discord bot hosting).