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.

Only for webhooks. Long-polling works with no inbound traffic at all.

Can it run alongside other services?

Yes, the same VM can run a bot, an API and a database.

Is a free tier enough?

Yes — a typical bot uses a few percent of one ARM core.

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

Webhook or long-polling Telegram bots on a server you control, with a real HTTPS endpoint included.

At a glance

Base image	`python:3.12-slim`
Port	`8080`
Build command	`pip install -r requirements.txt`
Start command	`python bot.py`
Infrastructure cost	$0 on Oracle Always Free (platform fee for managed DevOps)

Running Telegram bot on Ampere ARM

Telegram bots are I/O bound, so a fraction of one Ampere core is enough. Webhooks need HTTPS, which Caddy provides automatically once a domain is attached.

Steps

Choose webhook or polling. Webhooks are cheaper and instant, but need a public HTTPS URL — attach a domain first.

Set the webhook after deploy. Call setWebhook once your domain resolves.

curl "https://api.telegram.org/bot$TOKEN/setWebhook?url=https://yourdomain.com/telegram"

Deploy. Add TELEGRAM_TOKEN as a secret and push.

Dockerfile for Telegram bot on ARM64

FROM python:3.12-slim
WORKDIR /app
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["python", "bot.py"]

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

Common mistakes

Two instances polling at once: Telegram returns 409 conflicts if an old container is still polling. Blue/green deploys stop the old one first.
Webhook set to http: Telegram only accepts HTTPS webhook URLs on port 443, 80, 88 or 8443.
Silent handler exceptions: Log unhandled errors; a crashed handler looks identical to a quiet bot.

Deploy Telegram bot on Oracle Cloud's free tier

At a glance

Running Telegram bot on Ampere ARM

Steps

Dockerfile for Telegram bot on ARM64

Common mistakes

Related reading

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Frequently asked

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