We now host Discord bots!
Discord bot hosting is live. Four plans, from 1GB at A$3.75 a month up to 4GB at A$15.00, running on our own hardware in Sydney. Run a bot you wrote yourself, or pick one of eleven premade bots and your server installs it for you.
Plans: mchosts.com.au/plans/discord-bot
The plans
There are four sizes. Gateway is 1GB with 5GB of storage, Shard is 2GB with 10GB, Cluster is 3GB with 15GB and Bridge is 4GB with 20GB. A bot that looks after one community is happy on Gateway. A public bot in lots of servers, or one that plays audio, wants more room, and when yours outgrows its plan you can upgrade from your control panel with its files coming along.
Every plan is A$3.75 per GB, the same rate as every game we host. These are the ongoing prices, not an introductory rate.
Your first month is 20% off on monthly billing, applied automatically at checkout. Or pay up front and take 10% off three months, 15% off six or 20% off a year. Those prices are rounded down to a whole dollar, so you always save at least that much. The two offers don't stack.
Need more storage? Add it in 10GB blocks for A$2.50 a month each, up to five, at checkout or later from your control panel. Adding one doesn't restart your bot. A block stays with your server once it's added, because a disk can grow but can't shrink.
Your own bot, or one of ours
Your own bot. Pick its runtime at checkout from Node.js 26, Python 3.13, Java 25, .NET 10 or a compiled binary. Upload your files on the Files tab or over SFTP, or point your server at a GitHub repository. The packages in your package.json or requirements.txt install every time your bot starts. Running Your Own Discord Bot walks you through it.
A premade bot. Eleven open source bots are ready to go, from an all-in-one bot with moderation and levels to tickets, reaction roles, game server status and AI chat. Choose one at checkout, or later on the Premade Bots tab. You create the bot in Discord and paste in its token, and your server installs the newest version from its authors and starts it. Setting Up a Premade Discord Bot has the steps.
What is different about a bot server
It has no address. A bot connects out to Discord, so nobody joins it and there's no port to share.
The console is your bot's. You see what your bot prints, along with your packages installing as it starts.
Two tools are a tick away. ffmpeg for audio and video, and ImageMagick for images. Tick one on the Config tab and it installs the next time your bot starts.
You can change runtime later. Do it on the Settings tab. Your server restarts on the new one with your files kept.
What is the same
The control panel, the file manager, SFTP, backups and support work the way they do for our game servers, because it's the same panel and the same team. So does the 7-day money-back guarantee. You can take a backup whenever you like.
A bot's backup holds its files and its settings. Installed packages aren't in it, since they install again the next time it starts.
Beyond games
Discord bots are the first thing we host that isn't a game. You'll find them on our new Services page, and nothing about our game plans has changed.
