How much does Cheaploy cost?

Cheaploy charges a monthly platform fee for the managed DevOps automation. Your cloud bill stays $0 because deployments run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Always Free tier — 2 ARM Ampere CPUs, 12GB RAM, 200GB block storage, a load balancer and 10TB egress per month, perpetually free with no credit-card charges.

What's the catch with Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier?

Oracle's free tier is genuinely free, but new accounts sometimes see capacity errors in popular regions when launching ARM instances. Cheaploy auto-retries across regions and availability domains until provisioning succeeds.

Do I need DevOps experience?

No. Cheaploy detects your stack (React, Node, Python, Go, Java, etc.), generates an optimized multi-stage Dockerfile, provisions a VCN, ARM compute, load balancer, and SSL certificate, then deploys — all from a single 'Deploy' click.

Can I deploy a Lovable, Bolt, v0, or Cursor app?

Yes. Cheaploy was built for vibe coders shipping AI-generated apps. Upload a ZIP from Lovable, paste a GitHub URL from Cursor or v0, or connect Bolt — Cheaploy handles the rest and gives you a URL on your own cloud.

How is this different from Vercel, Render, or Fly.io?

Vercel, Render, and Fly.io rent you their infrastructure with generous free tiers that get expensive at scale. Cheaploy deploys to your own Oracle Cloud account, so the infrastructure is yours — and Oracle's free tier never expires.

Will the bot go offline?

Only if the VM does. There is no idle timeout on an Always Free instance, which is the main reason people move bots off free PaaS tiers.

Can I host a Python bot?

Yes — swap the base image for python:3.12-slim and run discord.py the same way.

How many bots per instance?

Several. Run each as its own container and give them memory limits.

Deploy Discord bot on Oracle Cloud Free Tier (2026 guide)

An always-on bot process with no sleeping dyno, no idle timeout and no monthly bill.

At a glance

Base image	`node:22-alpine`
Port	`3000`
Build command	`npm ci --omit=dev`
Start command	`node index.js`
Infrastructure cost	$0 on Oracle Always Free (platform fee for managed DevOps)

Running Discord bot on Ampere ARM

A discord.js gateway connection uses well under 200 MB of RAM, so a single Always Free ARM instance can host several bots at once.

Steps

Store the token as a secret. Never commit the bot token. Add it in project settings as DISCORD_TOKEN.
Add a tiny HTTP health server. Bots have no web port by default; a 20-line server lets deploys verify the process is alive.
```
require("http").createServer((_, res) => res.end("ok")).listen(3000);
```
Deploy and enable auto-restart. The container restarts on crash and on VM reboot.

Dockerfile for Discord bot on ARM64

FROM node:22-alpine
WORKDIR /app
ENV NODE_ENV=production
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci --omit=dev
COPY . .
CMD ["node", "index.js"]

Need one tailored to your repository? The free Dockerfile generator writes an ARM-ready multi-stage build for you.

Common mistakes

Rate limits after redeploys: Re-registering slash commands on every boot will hit Discord's limits. Register them from a separate script.
Missing gateway intents: Message content requires a privileged intent enabled in the Discord developer portal.
Losing state on redeploy: Keep persistent data in Postgres or a mounted volume, not in memory.

Deploy Discord bot on Oracle Cloud's free tier

At a glance

Running Discord bot on Ampere ARM

Steps

Dockerfile for Discord bot on ARM64

Common mistakes

Related reading

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Frequently asked

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